460 O N £ G YPT AND THE N I L E 



tus, was Pallid atta, the gift of the national god J? alii or Nairrit, 

 As to La bd ac us, he died in the flower of his age, or difappeared, fay 

 the. Hindus, and was tranflated into heaven; but, during his minority, the 

 reins of government were held by Lycus, a fon of Nycteus, or Nac- 

 tun-chara: he was fucceeded by Laius, which, like Pali, means a 

 herd/man or fhepherd ; for halo, Hla\ and Ufa fignify herds and flecks; and 

 thus we find a certain Laius, who had a fon Bucolion, and a grandfon 

 Phi a.lus, both which names have a reference to pa/lure, for the Shepherds 

 were called by the Greeks AyeXnToi, and Agelaia was fynonymous with 

 Pallas. The fon of Laius was GEdipus, with whofe dreadful misfor- 

 tune, as we intimated in the firfl feclion, the Hindus are not unacquainted, 

 though they mention his undefigned inceft in a different manner, and fay, 

 that Yo'gabrashta\ whom they defcribe as a flagitious woman, entered 

 into the fervice of fome cowherds, after the miferable death of her ion 

 Maha'su'ra, or the Great Hero, by Lina'su, the fon of Lubdhaca, 

 who was defcended from Pa lli : the whole ftory feems to have been Egyp- 

 tian, though transferred by^ the Greeks to Thebes in their own country. 



XIII. The laft piece-of hiftory, mixed with an aftrological fable, which 

 I think it ufeful to add, becaufe it relates to Barbara, is the legend of Das'a- 

 rat'ha, or .the .monarch, whofe car had borne him to ten regions, or to the 

 eight points, the zenith, and the nadir : it is told both in the Bhawi/hya Pu- 

 r&n -and the Bra'bmanda,. He was defcended from Su'rya, or He'li, which 

 is a- name of the Sun m^Greek and in Sanfcrit : one of his anceftors, the great 

 RAG r HUv had conquered the feven dwzpas, or the whole earth, and Vishnu 

 became incarnate ip *ihe perfon p{ his fon Ra'ma c h A n d r a. It happened 

 in the reigrtof DasA;RAt'ha, that Sani, having juid left the lunar manfion 

 Gritiicd, or the Pleiads, was entering the Hyads, which the Hindus ; caH 



