from tite Ancient Books of the Hindus. 435 



ment and deliverance was fhown there in his time ; (a) and the Sanjcrit 

 word Tampa, which the Arabs pronounce Tdfah and Europeans call Joppa, 

 means deliverance from imminent danger. On the Egyptian more, oppofite 

 to Joppa, was a place called the Watch-tower of Perseus: by Grdha, a 

 crocodile or a mark, we may underftand alfo one of Ra'hu's defcendants, 

 among whom the females were the Graiai, or Greece, of the weftern mytho- 

 gifts. Pdnigraba was, I fuppofe, the town of Panopolis, which could have 

 no relation to the God Pan ; for Herodotus, who had been there, in- 

 forms us, that it was called both Panopolis and Chemmis, that the inhabi- 

 tants of it paid divine honours to Perseus, and boafted that he was 

 born in it ; but had Pan, of whom that hiftorian frequently fpeaks, 

 been the tutelary god of the town, he would certainly have mentioned that 

 fact : in the acls of the council of Ephefus, we find that Sabinus was 

 Panis Epifcopus, as if one name of the town had been Pani or Pan is ; and 

 it might have been anciently named Pdni-githa, the manjion or place of the 

 hand, that is of wedlock, which the Greeks would of courfe tranflate Pano- 

 polis ; as we find Raja-griha rendered Rdja-maball in the fame fenfe. On 

 the banks of the Niger was another town of that name, called Panagra by 

 Ptolemy ; and, to the north ofit, we fee Timica, Rujikibar, Rufuccurum, 

 and Rujicade, which have a great affinity with Timica and Rasica, be- 

 fore mentioned as defcended from Perseus : both Raficbdr and Rqfic-gber 

 are Indian appellations of places; the firft meaning the enclofed ground. or 

 orchard, and the fecond, (which is a corruption from the Sanjcrit) the 

 houje, of Rafica. Great confufion has arifen in the geography of India, 

 from the refemblance in found of gher, a houfe, gerh, a fortrefs, and the 

 fecond fyllable of nagar t a town; thus Crijhna-nagar is pronounced Ki/lma- 



(a) L. 5- C. 13, and 31. See alfo Jofcphus, Strabo, Mela. 

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