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The Idolatry of 
Part II. 
wife falling down dead, his Friends did 
Baldam^ the fame to them, and fo one to another, 
^^'^^ till they were all kill'd, according to the 
Predidlion of Ruchi the Brahman, 
Kifm having now fiilfiird his Office in 
rooting out Wickednefs among Man, 
fent for the Panfpendaons and Droepeti^ 
and their Mother to Davarca^ where he 
told them, that having feledted them as 
well as his Wives from the reft, he would 
have them go to the Mount Hemaatfiel 
Permt^ whence they fliould be taken up 
into Heaven. Accordingly they went 
with Kifna's 16000 Wives to the faid 
Mount, the Peak whereof nobody could 
reach but Su[fufltr\ however they were 
all together drawn up infenfibly through 
the Air into Heaven. 
Kifm knowing that his time was come 
to leave the Earth, he took a handful 
of Duft, and throwing it over the City, 
their Golden Streets and Houfes were in 
an inftant tranfmuted into Straw, Dirt, 
Wood and Stones i which done, he afcen- Kifna ^f- 
ded ftrait to Heaven. The Pagans are ^^""'^ ^0 
unanimoufly of opinion, that in cafe the 
whole Sea was fiU'd with Ink, and the 
Earth made of Paper, and all the Inha- 
bitants of the Terreftrial Globe were 
only imploy'd in writing, they would not 
be fufficient to give an exad account of 
all the Miracles wrought by Kifna in Tk fame 
ICQ years time, in the third Period of k fJd of 
the World call'd Dua^erfwge^ containing chrifl^ 
864000 Years, Joh.21.25-. 
CHAP. XI. 
The ninth Jppearatice of Viftnum in the {bape of Bo.udha or Bodhe. 
tenth Transformation into a flying Horfe, caWd Kallcnkyn. The Origin and 
Anions of Bramma. 
The n;V/? 'T^HE Benjuns tell us of Bodhe^ that he 
Appea- j[ [,35 neither Father nor Mother, that 
ranee, jnvifible, but whenever he appears it 
is with four Arms : He fpends his whole 
time in praying with a dejefted Coun- 
tenance to the Great God ( call'd Maha- 
deuw by the Benjans') and that after having 
continued 26430 years without perform- 
ing any Miracles, his time is expir'd upon 
Earth,, being the time we now live in, ac- 
cording to the Computation of the Pa- 
gans. Forpurfuant to the Computation 
of the Benjms at Suratte^ there were in 
the year of Chrift 1649, pafs'd 4750 
years, and coafequently 21680 years to 
come. 
What is faid of this Idol concern- 
ing his being born without Father and 
Mother, a-nd his Invifibility, feems ta 
have fome relation to what they may per- 
haps have heard of Chrift, as his four Arms 
intimate his Power, a thing frequently 
attributed to the Pagan Gods juft as the 
antient Poets made their Giants with a 
hundred Hands. The Jefuit Kircber at- 
tributes likewife four Heads ( but erro- 
neoufly) to this Bodhe (call'd Bhavani 
by others) and fays, that by his four 
Arms they would reprefent the four Ele- 
ments. What the faid Jefuit relates of 
Jtamtz^andcr the Son of Bal, who came 
from Heaven to deliver his People from 
the OpprelTion of the Giants and Ty- 
rants, feeras to be a Gonfirmatwn of 
what we faid before concerning feme 
obfcure Remnants of Knowledg among 
thefe Pagans of Chrift. 
The Benjans tell us, that KaUenkyn is T-^^ tenth 
a white wing'd Horfc, ftanding upon ^'"''n/^''- 
three feet only in Heaven, holding one 
of the foremoft Legs up without intpr- 
miffion. They fay, that at the begin- 
ning of this Transformation the Benjam 
lhall live pioufly and happily, but by de- 
grees turn to all manner of Impiety and 
Wickednefs for 40570 years : Then, fay 
they, this Horfe is to trample upon the 
Earth with his right fore Leg with fuch 
a force, that the Serpent Si^^nagie being 
no longer able to bear the World, the 
Tortoife finding the whole Burden laid on 
her Back, will run to the Sea and drown 
the World, which is to be the Conclu- 
fion of the laft Period of the World j 
after which the firft is to begin again : 
For it is obfervable, that all the Eaftern 
Pagans believe the Eternity of the World, 
allowing only fome Changes from one 
time to another. 
The Whitenefs of this Horfe intimates - ; 
the Cleannefs, its Wings the Adivity.; 
and Agility, and the Horfe it felf the 
Strength of the God r//?»«w v it being 
certain,that tho moft of the Indian Pagans, 
and efpecially the Malabars, are black 
themfelves, yet they have a peculiar 
efteem for the white Colour, as may be 
feen ia the White Cow of Plenty, call'd 
Camdo' 
