ISi- ' BSSAY ON THE 



TURN, which was in use amongst the inhabitants of the Isles in the JSTor^ 

 them Ocean, who celebrated, with great pomp, the entrance of that planet^ 



into the sign of Taurus^ according to Plutarch, , 



It is declared in the Put an' as, and ac|?:nowIedged by every body, 

 that this momentous transa6i;ion took place in the White sea : but the- 

 spot is more particularly pointed out in the Vardha-purdna^ and others* 

 It happened in that part of the White sea called the Calas ddad'hi or 

 the caldron-like sea ; from its being an inland one, and surrounded on- 

 all sidesj or nearly so, by the land ; from which circumstance it wa^ 

 compared, to a potj, or caldron. This sea was contiguous to the White 

 Island on one side^ for on account of Its contiguity, the Amnt is said;^ 

 Inth^ Matsya-purdna and -others, to have been produced on, or near 

 the; WkitEj . or silver mountain, called there also the mountain of Soma. 

 or Ltmus, On the other side it bordered on Suvama-dzvipa or Ireland i 

 fOT we are told, in the Frihat-Cafhd, that there was a sea town in that 

 €omitry,cdlled Calas a-puriy from its being situated on the Calas cdad'hi^ 

 or sea like a Calam or caldron. This caldron-like, or land-locked seas, 

 is evidently the JrM Sea, Into this Calas' a, according to the Vdraha^ 

 pur an' a, the gods flung all the plants, and agreed to- churn it. This they; 

 did, says our author, in Varun'd ley am or Varunasydleyam,, the abode, 

 dleyam, or st'hdn ^ol^ Varun'a, '■the: god of the sea. His abode, to. 

 this day,;is;:v/eU known, -and : is in the very centre of that sea» The 

 Ma?ix and Irish myth.ologists, aecording to CoL Valancey, call Va- 

 hun'a, ■.Mananan-Mac-Lir, MANANAN,the son of the sea : and his abode^ 

 •according to thenij is in the Isle of. Man, or Maufun , a.s it is called by 

 Irish bards. According to General Valancey, it was called also Ma* 

 nand, v<rhich answers to the Moticeda of Ptolemy. 



