4 6 4 On Egypt and the Nile 



of Visva'mitra, the father of Sacontala', with whofe life you are 

 well acquainted : 



r. " Cati, Crijhna, likewife Ni'la'; 'Syama, Cdld> and AJitd alfoj Anja- 

 * e ndbbd and 'Sydmald', Mechaca too and Pdvani? 



2. c * Aghahd and Mdcjhadd — thefe twelve profperous names of the G0* 

 et cd, in whatever receptacle of water 



3. "A man fhall repeat at the time of bathing, he mall gain the fruit 

 " of an ablution in the Call. No ftream on earth is equal to the river Cah 

 *' as a giver of increafe to virtue. 



4. ** He, who has bathed in hzrjtream is wholly releafed from the mur- 

 *' der of a Brahmen and every other crime : they, who have been offenders 

 " in the higheft degree, are purified by her, and confequently they, who 

 •* have committed rather inferior fins. 



5. •« They, who have arrived on the bank of the river Cati, are indubi- 

 '■** tably releafed from fin; and even by a fight of the river Call, an aflem- 

 ■•« blage of crimes is quite effaced -, 



6. ** But to declare the fruit gained by bathing in her waters, is impoffi- 

 " ble even for Brahma'. Thefe delightful and exquifite names whatever 

 ee men 



y. «* Shall repeat, even they are confidered as duly bathed in the river 

 *' CM : conftantly therefore, muft they be repeated with 2&po]jihle attention/' 



