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In the character of Cr IS Hfi A, who 15 acknowledged to have,- coma' origin 

 naily fronj the White ■IsJa?td in thei^est, the ' Ultima Cr^^^' alluded to 

 by the Romans, 'th(i\Ghnt(i. of the. Ptirdn as, and who lived at :Dwdracd^ 

 one of the Panchosan islands," with ''his i relations. These '"were 'called 

 Rhadamaneshy'HoKiiiXis, because theyi . were the followers of Ra'dha'- 

 MoHANA, a well known title of Crishn'a, pronounced Ra'da'mon in the 

 spoken dialects. Crtshna rescued his mortalparents frorn- confinement^- 

 like the 0^if(2w Jupiter. • ;-:.v;v.;- 



In the legendary tales of Crtshna, Gansa and' Yud'piishtira, we 

 have the history of the Cretan Jupiter, Saturn and Minos : for Yu- 

 d'hishtira was called D'harma-Rdja, or the king of justice. Like Sa- 

 turn, Cansa wanted to destroy the offspring of VasudeVa, and had al- 

 ready destroyed seven of his children; but the eighth, or young Crishna, 

 was concealed, like Jupiter, in his infancy. Then we have the wars 

 of the Titans, who were, according to some, descended from Cres : and 

 Crishna waged a long war with the descendants of Curu, his relations, 

 CrTshna at last killed Cansa; and died at the advancjed ag^ of.i2:5> 

 years: Jupiter died at the age of 120^ or according to others 122 years. 

 Thus we have in the true style of. the Paurdn'ics, the same adtors, the 

 same historical events, reappearing at this renovation of the world, as 

 came to pass in more remote ages, under the elder Saturn. ^ ' 



This notion fully prevailed also in the west, for the followers of Plato 

 maintained, that every thing that had passed, should there resume its 

 former state : Socrates would be again accused by An ytu 5 and Me- 

 LiTus, and the Athenians would again condemn Iiim to death, and 

 heartily repent of it. Virgil, in his fourth eclogue, says positively the 

 same thing : there will be then a new Tiphys, another Argo, and ano- 



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