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h Avatara, was born antecedent to the sixth, nay we admit Enoch to have been the sixth, id his father Jared the seventh Avatara. The Hindus aware of this seeming contradiction have recourse to metempsychosis to explain it ; and assert that Rama Chandra was regenerate; or that the souls of the parents of Parasa Rama (the sixth Avatara) passed into the bodies of the parents of Rama Chandra. There are some who pretend to ascertain their names, and say that the souls of Jamadegma and Renuca the parents of Parasa, passed into the bodies of Dasaratha and Caushalya the parents of Rama Chandra: thereby rendering the text unintelligible. The souls of the parents of Parasa Rama, passing into the bodies of the parents of Rama Chandra, clearly denotes that Parasa, or the sixth Avatara, was the grandson of Dusaratha, and therefore by implication, the son of Rama Chandra, the seventh Avatara. Whereas, by introducing the name of Jamadegma (who was the Acharya* of Parasa,) as his natural father, the whole sentence is rendered absurd. In like manner, from its appearing in the Hindu records, that the

Bharata of the Lunar dynasty was halfer to Rama Chandra of the Solar dynasty, been asserted that "Dasaratha was not only

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the nominal father of this mighty Avatara; he was, also, by another wife, the immediate progenitor of the great Bharat; the acknowledged sovereign of all Hindostan *." A moment's reflection would have convinced this author of the absurdity of his statement. First, as he had himself given the line of Bharata from Yayati and Dushmanta; and, secondly, had Bharata been the son of Dasaratha, he must have been of the Solar dynasty. This forms a very material part of the Hindu record. It explains two great events, the intermarriages between the race of Cain, and that of Seth; and the three brothers' sons of Mahalaleel, who carried on the first Titanian war. For Dasaratha having married the mother of Bharata, a princess of the Lunar race, his son Rama was, of course, half brother to Bharata. Chandra being the immediate epithet of the Lunar line, the son of Dasaratha by the mother of Bharata, was called Rama Chandra, to denote his descent, in the female line, from the Lunar race, or children of the Moon, the sovereigns of the world. From which it has been stated, that the great Buddha, the incarnate God, as being the descendant of Rama Chandra, was of the Lunar race. And Europeans, following the error of Baldeus, and mistaking the third period

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of the world, for the third age, frequently write Crishnu instead of Buddha; thereby mistaking Enoch for Moses. Dasaratha is represented as father of three great lines; and we shall presently see, that those three were Jäpetus, Titan, and Cronus, of the Greek; although Dasaratha was only the father-in-law of the latter. To proceed with the Hindu pedigree.

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* Born A. M. 623.

+ Appeared, ruled about A. M. 800.

Appointed ruler over a province, A. M. 900.

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Allotting an equal number of rulers to this, as to the foregoing generation, the list ends with Supratica, placing Marudeva at the head of the eighth generation, in the Solar line. And who was so likely to be the son and successor of Maru, who is said never to have seen death, as Marudeva, which denotes Maru, the son of a God? As such he appears at the head of the eighth and last generation of the rulers over provinces *, before the two dynasties became entirely blended, by the sons of God coming down unto the daughters of men.

*The eighth generation was not only the last from which rulers over provinces were selected, but the last from which a Menu was selected, of the Solar race, before the deluge.

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