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gher, and Ram-nagar, Ramna-gher, both very erroneoufly ; fo Bifnagar 

 was probably Vifinu-nagar, or Vifva-nagar ;r we muft beware of this,, and 

 the like, confuiion^ when we examine the many names of places in Lybia 

 and other parts of Africa, which are either pure Sawjcrit, or in fuch of 

 the dialecls as are fpoken in the weft of India. 



Let us conclude this article with obferving, that the great extent of 

 Cape^ya's empire appears from the Greek Mythologies and other ancient 

 writers ; for the moil considerable part of Africa was called Cephenia from 

 his full name Cape'yanas; the Per fans from him were ftyled Cephenes; 

 and a diftricl: in the fouth of Armenia was denominated Cepkene ; a paflage 

 alfo in Pliny fhows, that his dominion included Ethiopia, Syria, and the 

 intermediate countries % " Ethiopia, fays he, was worn out by the wars of 

 w the Egyptians, alternately ruling and ferving ; it was famed, however, 

 " and powerful even till the Trojan wars in the reign of Memnon; and 

 *' that, in the time of king Cepheus, it had command over Syria, and on 

 " ouy coaft* is evident from the fables of Andromeda." 



III. The following legend is taken from the Mardcalpa, and is there 

 faid exprefsly to be an Egyptian ftory* An ancient king, who was named 

 Chatura'yana, becaufe he was a perfect mailer of the four Vcdas, to 

 which name Vats a was ufually prefixed, hecaufe he was defcended from 

 Vats a, a celebrated fage, pafied a hundred years in a dark cavern of 

 Cri/hna-giri, or the Black Mountain* on the banks of the Call, perform- 

 ing the mofl rigorous acts of devotion : at length Vishnu, furnamed Gu- 

 ll a" say a, or dwelling in caves, appeared to him, and ppomifed him, all 

 that he delired, makifjuei adding, that his fon mould be named Tamo'- 

 VATSAy in allufion to the darknefs, in which his father had (o long prac- 



