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to the derivation of the Mythologifts j but Pufhpavarfham, which is tire 

 name of the country round them, may fignify no more than the region of 

 flowers : the Gods were not fatisfied with a fliower of bloffoms, and when 

 the firit, ceremonies were performed at Pujhpa-ver/haji'bdn, they rained 2M0 

 tears of joy, which being mingled with thofe of" the royal pair and the pi- 

 ous hermit, formed the river Nanda, whofe waters h&ftened to join the Ca~ 

 /z, and their united ftreams fell at length into the Sanc'hdbdhi, or fea of Sa?te- 

 ka. The goddefs, who prefided over the Na?idd, palled near the manfion of 

 a fage, named Sa'ntapana, a child of Santa? ana, or the Sun, who ran 

 with deKght to meet her and condu&ed her near his hermitage, where De- 

 vat as ^nd Rifhis were affernbled to pay her divine honours : they attended 

 her to the place of her confluence with the great Cr}/kna, near which was 

 afterwards built Santapana-JTbdn, and there the fage fixed a linga, or emblem 

 of Sa'ntapana-'siva, to which probations muft be made, after prefcrib- 

 ed ablution in the hallowed waters, by all fuch as de fire a feat in the 

 rmanfions of Swcrga. 



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"The mountains and country of Pujhpavarfaa feem to be thofe round the 

 lake Dcmbea, which immediately after the rains, fays Mr. Bruce, look, 

 from the bloffoms of the Wanzey, as if they were covered with white linen 

 or new fallen fnow. Diodorus calls them Pfeuaras in the oblique cafe $ 

 andSrRABo, Pfedceos -, the lake itfclf being < alfo named Pfeboa, or Pfebv, 

 from the Sanfcrit word pujhpa.- By one of the old Hindu writers, the river 

 Nandd is placed between Barbara and Cujha-dwip-, by another, in Sane ha-. 

 dmtp itfelfij bufthis is eaiily reconciled, for, according to the more an- 

 cient divifion of the earth, the exterior dwip of Cijsh a was confidered a.s.a, 

 y&rt of Sane ba-dwip ; though, in the new divifion, it is juft the reverfe _.: 

 all agree, that the Nandd runs., in great part of its courfe, from fouth to 



