m ESSAY ON THE 



" after your own name : ere<5l also many places of worship in my honor, in 

 <* the delightful countries bordering on the Chandra-bhdgd. He made a 

 " statue of the sun of pure gold, and sent for a holy man to consecrate it. 

 «' His name was Gaura-muc'ha," (called also Gauruch-na't'ha in the 

 spoken dialers;) " and he lived in a forest" (called to this day Gauruc'h" 

 van, for Gaiira-muc^ha-van, or Gaurr-hm, to \h^ north, of Cahul.) " But the 

 <' holy man refused to come, saying that it was not lawful for him to accept 

 "of things already belonging to the sun; fpr 'Sa'mba had given all his pro« 

 ** perty to the sun. But, says he, there is a Brahmen called Maga, who will 

 *' not scruple to take them. He is the sonof Ni-cshubha', (Nehalenia) 

 " and Agniyfite, and born from the heart of the sun ""Aditya," (or in other 

 words the sun was his father, and of course Tv/a$ht a' was his grandfather. ) 

 " I don't know," says the sage, *' where he lives ; but Ravi^ihQ sun, does/* 

 " Samba asked the statue, which answered ; " There is nobody in Jamhu, 

 " worthy of offering up prayers to me ; that is to say, who is acquainted with 

 *' the true and most efficacious manner and rites of my worship. There is 

 ** one in Sdca-dwipa, bring him here. This dwipa is beyond the Salt Sea^ 

 *' and is surrounded by the White Sea, It is beyond Jambu, and its name 

 " is ^Sdca. There are four tribes abounding in meritorious deeds ; the 

 " first is called Maga, the second Magasa, the third Mdnasa, and the 

 " fourth Magada: but the Mag as are Brdhmens, in the dwfpa of Jam-' 

 " hi I dwell, in the cliarafter of Vishnu ; and the Vedas in human 

 ** shapes, chaunt my praise. In 'Sdlmali I am S'acra-hidra : m Crauncha 

 " my name is Bhaga«" (Bog is the name of the Supreme Being there 

 to this day.) *' In S'dca, I am Divd-cara, maker or giver of light;" (be- 

 cause the sun rises there in his yearly course.) *' In Pushcara I am 

 "Brahma", and there I am Maheswara." The name of Cusha-dwipa, 

 being omitted in the text, it is supposed, that in the original, it stood 



