Chap. 1. 
the Eaft-India Pagans. 
him in the Hall, which pleafed him fo 
well, that he foon forgot his Father's 
Orders, /xom wondering at Quenevadys 
long flay, fent his Brother Su^erbenma 
upon the fame Errand ; Fifimm know- 
ing him not to be diverted with Trifles, 
lent out to him fome ingenious Perfons, 
who enter tain'd him fo well with fubtile 
Difcourfes and Arguments, that he like- 
wife neglefted his Father's Commands. 
At laft Ixofi? finding both his Sons to 
ftay behind, order'd his Daughter Patra- 
gali thither Viflnum no fooner heard of 
her coming, but he commanded a molt 
delicious Banquet to be fet before her in 
the Hall, through which (he was to pafs, 
which fo diverted her Senfes, that (he 
foon forgot what (he came about. 
Ixora finding all thefe Endeavours to 
prove ine{Fectual, refolved to go thither 
in Perfon i which rijlnum no fooner got 
notice of, but he told King Jecxa Prajava 
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his Father-in-law, that not being able to 
cope with Jxora^ he would retire with 
his Wife ; and Bramma doing the fame, 
the Sun and the Moon ( two ot the Guelh ) 
ftaid only behind : Jxora coming to his Fa- 
ther-in-law's Palace, upbraided him with 
the Contempt he had put upon him and his 
Wife ParamefccTi^ and fo taking him by 
the Hair full of Anger, there came forth 
at the fame inftant a flout Warrior arm'd 
Cap-a-pee (like the Mars of the antierrt 
Pagans ) calFd Virapatren by the Adala- 
bars^ who cut olf Jccxa Prajava^s Head, 
the Hands of the God of the Fire^ and 
beat out the Teeth of the Sun. What 
Rogerm fays concerning Jccxa Prajava's, 
having got a Goats Head inftead of the 
other, and that the Moon alfo got a good 
banging, I could never learn either from 
thefe Pagans themfelves, or from the 
Portuguefe Hiftories. 
PART II. 
CHAP. I. 
The JdolV'i^mm^ and his Transformation into a Fijh. Mats Altar. Another 
Transformation of Viftnum. An Account of the Milk-Sea, Cauram'j 
Altar, 
ViftnumV 
Defcent 
and Refi. 
dines. 
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Iflnum the fecond in rankamong 
the Gods next to Ixora^ is alfo 
defcended from Quivelwga. He 
is of a black Colour, with one 
Head, and four Hands ^ he refides on the 
Sugar- Sea, and governs the World fleep- 
ing. Inftead of a Bed, he repofes upon 
a noted Serpent call'd Annatan^ with five 
Heads two whereof ferve him for Pil- 
lars, one for a Bolfter, and two under 
his Hands. This Serpent, as they fay, 
being once m the humour to try the 
Power o\ njlnum^got a fixth Head, which 
Vijlnum no fooner faw, but he got another 
Hand to lay upon the Head, and the Ser- 
pent having got a feventh Head, he got 
iikev/ife another Hand j fo that, as the 
Serpents Heads did grow to the number of 
a thoufand, his Hands encreafed in propor- 
tion j whence it is that they look upon 
the Serpents as Celeftial Spirits, keep them 
in great Veneration, and never kill them, 
tho they are often hurt by them. Thus 
Vol. Ilf 
the Serpents were reckoned by the an- 
tient Lithuanians^ Samogitians, Prujftant 
and Egyptians. 
They tell us further, that Viflnum wears Wears a 
the Print of a Foot upon his Breaft : For f™^ 
one Eicxi Sirwelftena being defirous to ^^^'^fi'- 
know which of the three was the mofl 
Potent God^ came to Calaja^ and gave Ixora 
a good Box on the Ear, who transform'd 
him into a Stone -, but having after 1 2 
years recover'd his Life, he did the fame 
to Bramma^ who Jet him go without do- 
ing him any harm. Then coming to 
Vtflmm^ and finding him upon his Bed, 
he fct his foot upon his Breaft, which 
nflnum fix'd there, fo that he was forced 
to continue there 100 years, 
Vtjlnum had two Wives, one call'd viftnum'^ 
Leximi alias Laetzemi^ and Siri Pagode ^Vives.^ 
before- mention'd. The firft Viflnum 
found in the Milk-Sea., in a Rofe of 
108 large and 1008 leffer Leaves j her 
chief bufinefs is to fcratch his Head. The 
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