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bably Jupiter Dolichenus, or Jupiter the artist; and the Telchines 

 were probabl}? thus denominated, from the same original term, and for the 

 same reason. Daidalus was the son of Micion, the same, I beheve, with 

 Zeus Michius, or Jupiter Dolichenus. Michius is probabl}'' derived 

 from an obsolete Greek verb, answering to the English verb, to make t 

 hence mechane, machina &Co 



If the Hindus had been in possession of the Vcdas in the time of Crish- 

 NA, there would have been no occasion to send to the White Island for 

 Brdhmens skilled in the true worship of the sun : and we find, that the 

 sacred Vedas were committed to writing and published at that very time 

 in hidia, by the famous Vya'sa ; at the time, I say, that the Magas 

 made their appearance in India. As it is acknowledged that these sacred 

 books came originally from the west, and as they were committed to 

 writing about the time that the Magas arrived in India, it might be sup- 

 posed, that they brought this sacred treasure with them, and dehvered it 

 orally to Vya'sa, who committed it immediately to writing; for which 

 deed he is highly censured by some. But, what solves the difficulty 

 at once, is, that the famous Vya'sa is declared to have abided for 

 so long a period in the JFhite-Island, that he obtained the well known 

 surname of Dwaipa'ya'na, or he who resides in the island. For thus 

 is the White-Island emphatically denominated: thus Vishnu is called 

 DwAiPAYANA, which, like Dzvipa-sfha, does not imply a person, who 

 had resided for sometime in the island, but an inhabitant of the island. 

 Vya'sa is called Dwaipa'yana in the Mahd-Bhdrataf se6tion of the 

 ''Sdntipnrva, paragraph of the Mocsha-Dharma , where we read, "Our 

 " spiritual guide is Crishna-dwaipa yana-Muni, or the Muni, who made 

 " the Island \i\$ abode, and who is a form of Vishnu or Crishna;* 



