382 On Egypt and the Nile 



(he was the mother of Typhon, who became fovereign of Egypt (a), but 

 was depofed and expelled by Arveris or Horus; where we have precife- 

 ly the ftory of Sani and Aurva. We cannot but obferve, that the fuc- 

 ceffion of the Gods in Egypt, according to Manetho, is exactly in the 

 fpirit of Hindu Mythology, and conformable, indeed, to the Purdnas them- 

 felves j and we may add, before we leave the planets, that, although Vri- 

 haspeti, an ancient legiflator and philofopher, be commonly fuppofed to 

 direct the motions of Jupiter, which now bears his name,. yet many of the 

 Hindus acknowledge, that Siva, or the God Jupiter, mines in that pla- 

 net, while the Sun is the peculiar ftationof Vishnu, and Saturn is direc- 

 ted by Brahma'j whom, for that reafon, the Egyptians abhorred, not dar- 

 ing even to pronounce his true name, and abominating all animals with red 

 hair, becaufe it was his colour. 



There is fomething very remarkable in the number of years, during 

 which Arc A s and his fan, reigned on the banks of the Call. The Sun, ac- 

 cording to the Brdbmens, began his devotion immediately after the flood, and 

 continued it a hundred years; Sani, they fay, was bom a hundred years after 

 his conception, and reigned a hundred years, or till the death of A'ra'm, 

 who muft therefore have died about three hundred years after the deluge, and 

 fifty years before his grandfather ; but the Paurdnics infift, that they were 

 years of Brahma: now one year of mortals is a day and night of the Gods, and 

 360 of our years is one of theirs °, 12,000 of their years, or 432,0000 of ours, 

 conftitute one of their ages, and 2000 fuch ages are Brahma's day and 

 night, which mufl be multiplied by 360, to make one of his years ; fo 

 that the Chronology of Egypt, according to the Brdhmens, would be more ex- 



(a) Lib. 2. Cap 25, Sec. 



