39^ On Egypt and the. Nile 



ra was charged by the Greeks into Bacchus Osiris 3 and, when they 

 introduced a foreign name with the termination of a cafe in their own 

 tongue, they formed a nominative from it; hence from Bhagawa'n alfo 

 they firffe made Bacchon, and afterwards Bacchos; and, partly from that 

 firange careleffnefs confpicuous in all their inquiries, partly from the re- 

 ferve of the E^y/Z/Wpriefts, they melted the three divinities of Egypt and 

 India into one^ whom they mifcalled Osiris. We have already obferved, 

 that Ysiris was the truer pronunciation of that name, according to Hel- 

 lanicusj though Plutarch infifls, that it mould be Siris or Sirius ; 

 but Ysiris, or Iswara^. feems in general appropriated to the incarnations 

 of Maha'deVa, while;SiRis or Sirius was applied to thofe of Vishnu. 



IX. Ween the Pdndavas, according to the VrViad-haima^ wandered 

 over the world, they came to the banks of the Call river in Sancha-dwip, 

 where they faw a three-eyed man fitting with kingly irate, furrounded by 

 his people and by animals of all forts, whom he was mftrudting in feveral 

 arts according, to their capacities: to his human fubjefts he was teaching 

 agriculture^, elocution, and wrking. The defcendants of Pandu, having 

 been kindly, received by him, related their adventures at his requeftj and 

 he told them in return* that, having, quarrelled in the manfion of Brah- 

 ma' with Dacsfia his father in law,, he was curfed by Menu, and doom- 

 ed to take the form of a Mdnava, or man, whence he was named on earth 

 'Amane'swara j that his faithful confort transformed herfelf into the 

 river Cdli r , and purified his people, while he guided them with the ftafr of 

 empire and: gave them inftruction, of which he had 1 found them in great 

 need. The place,,., where he refided, was called Amanefwara-ft"hdn 1 or the 

 feat of A'man or A"m on,, which can be no other than the Amonno of Scrip- 

 ture^ tranllated DioJ "polls by the Seventy interpreters; but it was Dio/polis- 



