from the Ancient Books of the Hindus. 399 



the Padma and the Bhdgavat ; yet we find an Egyptian tale very fimilar to 

 it. The wife of CaYya, who had been the guru., or fpiritual guide, of 

 Crishna, complained to the incarnate God, that the ocean had £ wallowed 

 up her children near the plain of Prabbdfa, or the weftern coaft of Gurj.ara, 

 now called Gujarat; and fhe fupplicated him to recover them. Crishna 

 haftened to the more; and, being informed by the fea-god, that Sanc'haV>u- 

 ra, or Pa'nchajanya, had carried away the children of his preceptor, 

 he plunged into the waves, and foon arrived at Cufia-dwip, where he in- 

 ftrudled the Cutila-cefas in the whole fyftem of religious and civil duties, 

 cooled and embellifhed the peninfula, which he found fmoking from the vari- 

 ous conflagrations which had happened to it, and placed the government of the 

 country on a fecure and permanent bafis : he then difappeared j and, having 

 difcovered the haunt of Sanc'ha'sura, engaged and flew him, after a long 

 conflict, during which the ocean was violently agitated and the land overflow- 

 ed ; but, not finding the Brahmen s children, he tore the rnonfter from his 

 mell, which he carried with him as a memorial of his victory and ufed after- 

 wards in battle by way of a trumpet. As he was proceeding to Varaha-dwip, or 

 Europe, he was met by Varuna, the chief God of the Waters, who aflured 

 him pofitively, that the children of CaVya were not in his domains : 

 the preferving power then defcended to Ya?napuri i the infernal city, and, 

 founding the fhell Pdncbajanya, ftruck fuch terrour into Yam a, that he ran 

 forth to make his proftrations, and reftored the children, with whom CtftiSH- 

 NA returned to t.heir mother. 



Now it is related by Plutarch (a), that Garmathone, queen of 

 Egypt, having loft her fon, prayed fervently to Is is, on whofe interceflion 



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[a) On Rivers, art* Nile. 



