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fovereigns of all .\he.dzvips\ whoihad;fhaken ofF their allegiance.; for which 

 purpofe he'raifed an imfhenfe'" army7\ and- marched through the interior. 

 Casha-divip'j or Iran and' Arabia, .through the exterior dwrp of Gush a,- or. 

 Ethiopia*,- ' through ■Sancba-dwtp ov' Egypt; through ■'Vardba-d-wip 01 Europe •■ 

 through Cbavdr-a-tizvip, and through' toe- countries now called Siberia and 

 China:' when- he invaded E^ypt, he overthrew the combined forces of the 

 Cutilii-cesas and Sydma-mucpmh^nth^\ar. terrible: a carnage, that the Call 

 (a word, which means alffii \hti.'f$ma!e'Wm-urer) was reported to have fwal- 

 lowed up the natives -of ■ Eyypl:,'- whofe bodies were thrown into her {ireairu 

 During his travels he" bulk many places of worfhip, and gave each of them' 

 the title of D 'ev and Ini foam: the principal rivers of the countries, tllougbb' 

 which he paffed, were alio' dut-inguilbed by his name; NAHUSHA-'being 1 . 

 ah appellation of the Nik, of the Cbacjhu or Oxus, of trre Varaha or IJler,; 

 and of feveral others. He : returned through India to Merit,- but unhappily 

 fell in 'love With Sachi" or Pulo'm aja", the eonfort of Indra,. who fe- 

 cretfy refolved on perfect fidelity to her lord, and, by the advice of Vri- 

 h asp ati, regent of the planet Jupiter and preceptor of the Dcvas 9 - pro- 

 mifed Nahusha to favour his addreffes, if he would vifit her in a ddla t or 

 palanquifi, carried on the moulders of the holieft Brdhmans: he ha^fuffi- 

 cient influence to procure a fet of reverend bearers; but fuch was the flow- 

 nefs of their motion, and fo great was his eagernefs to fee his beloved, that 

 he faid -with impatience to the chief of them Serpe, Serpe, which has pre- 

 cifely the fame fenfe in Sanfcrit and in Latin; and the fage, little iifed to 

 fuch an imperative, anfwered, ' " be thyfelf a ferpent." Such was the 

 power of divine'learning, that the imprecation was no fooner pronounced, 

 than the king fell on the earth in the fhape 'of that large ferpeht, which is 

 called Ajagdra in Sanfcrit, iiftd'Boa by Naturaliils : in that ftate of humi- 

 liation he found his way to the Black Mountains, and glided in fearch of 



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