110 ESSAY ON^ THE 



Oxus^ according to the Purdiias, have preserved. a great vdBiny Smiscrit 

 vocables in their ianguagOj which are engrafted upon another, mikngwn 



to MSo 



In- the short vocabulary . of the Hottentot language in Mr. Barrow's 

 description of the C^/?^, apd consisting only of eighteen ^wgrds, I was 

 surprised to find three of ^Qm pure Sanscrit. The first is* >S^irf2>, the 

 sun, in Sanscrit surya t citnif water, in Sanscrit, cam; and cu is the. earth 



in both languageSc . , . ,...,., .,;,,,. i ,__.;, ^ ^ , 



VM^FTEM IIL 



'■•■'' • '■ *Sweta' Devi; or the White Goddess, ^^ 



L J- HE White goddess^ whose abode is in the White Island, is one of 

 the:, three Purcae^ which according to the Paurdn'ics^ are a Tri-untty^ 



calleddn the singularnumber Tji'-Cald-devi-Cumdri, or the divine maid 

 im a three-fold state, 



SiJE wa§ born on mount Caildsa from the Tri-murtti, as related in the 

 Vardha-purdn'a: the three gods diredled their eyes, so that their looks 

 met into a /oa« or point; and this divine maid sprang up instantly. She 

 Is three-foldj and, as soon as she was born, she disappeared and went to 

 tlie Whitje mountain or Island, to perform tapasya. She is Trie's actUdevt, 

 or the goddess with the triple energy^ you must consider her as Tn* 

 vid'Jid or three»foid, and these three modes are ^i^^'^zV because they em« 



