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ward to that period. Whereas, after the name of Sumitra, p. 150. should have been placed the year B. C. 2346, allowing 1680 prophetic years, from the commencement of the Padma Calpa to the deluge, when the three antediluvian dynasties became extinct. It may be asked, why the deluge was not mentioned? The answer is obvious. The accounts were taken from the records of Pradyato; the contemporary of Tautus, or the first Athothes; that both were of the race of Ham; and that both, in their cosmogony, omitted the deluge; probably in a hope to obliterate the odium of descending from that race, in consequence of whose impiety the whole world had been destroyed. For the race of Ham was supposed in the female line to have descended from Naamah, the daughter of Lamech of the race of Cain. On Pradyato usurping the throne of Magadha, the Solar dynasty was considered as extinct. The twenty kings of Magadha, mentioned in page 153, were certainly the descendants of Shem; the eldest of whom, who settled in that province, might have been nearly an hundred years of age. On the division of the world A. M. 1758, to the sons of Shem were allotted all the eastern and northern parts of Asia; and although we know not the exact period, when the postdiluvian kings of Magadha took possession of that country, it is a fair inference that it was about

the time that Ham and Japheth travelled south, and stopped in Chaldea. For it is recorded that while the tower of Babel was building, the descendants of Shem were settling themselves quietly in those countries assigned to them, at the division of the world; and if the princes of Magadha were driven out by Pradyato of another race A. M. 1900, the period of their rule could not have exceeded an hundred and forty-two years; from A. M. 1768 to A. M. 1900; during this period, according to the Hebrews, in consequence of the encroachments of Cush the son of Ham, Joktan, of the house of Shem, passes with his family into Arabia Felix, and forms a kingdom, which was afterwards divided among his sons. About A. M. 1892, Ham comes to the resolution of avenging his father's curse; makes war against him, and drives him from hist own country, having previously settled Mizraim in Egypt. Cush likewise leaves his country, goes south of Babylon, and settles at Chaldea; making war on the family of Shem. From all which it. appears, that the epoch, when the race of Ham are represented by the Hebrews, as making war against, and driving into distant countries, the race of Shem, was that, at which a foreigner of the Cshatriya cast is believed by the Hindus to have deposed the king of Magadha, and to have driven the Solar race from the countries assigned to them.

The curse of Noah is recorded by the Hebrews to have been ultimately fulfilled on the race of Ham and the Hindus record, that, although this race were successful for a time, they were totally extirpated at Magadha, about six hundred years after, and ultimately driven from Asia. As the Hindus have the most unequivocal belief in the deluge, and the Puranas place the epoch at 1680 prophetic years, of 360 days, from the Lotos creation, it is absurd to suppose, that a dynasty, which was formed 750 years before the deluge, existed 250 years after it, unless we believe that the prince, who was saved in the ark, descended from the family of Jarasundha; which there is abundant reason to think was not so. It is, however, worthy of remark, that Sanchoniatho, who wrote from the cosmogony of Tautus the first Athothes, who was the contemporary of Pradyato, notices the three great lines of the Hindus. For this author, who is silent relative to the general deluge, continues the race of Cain unto the fourteenth generation, ending with the son of Athothes; engrafting the family of Ham on the stock of Cain. But, which is more material to this inquiry, he traces the line of Seth in the family of Jarasundha from the creation; admitting a third race, whose descent is only traced from the sixth generation: a tacit acknowledgement, that until then, they were the same. “There

was living," says this author, "in the time of the ninth generation, one Elioun, from whom descended Epigeus or Antochthon, afterwards called Ouranus." That Ouranus was Noah, has generally been admitted; and then it follows, as Noah was lineally descended from Enoch, the incarnate God of the Hindus, that Elioun, which denotes Hypsistus, or the Most High, was Enoch, who lived during the ninth generation. That all mention of the flood was suppressed by Sanchoniatho from a wish to exalt the race of Cain is probable. But, as he wrote from the records of Berytus, which were placed there in the time of Mizraim, whose father was saved in the ark, there must have been some additional motive, which equally prevailed with the historians, in the time of Pradyato;—that of disguising the real age of the world. For, as dates are very correctly marked by every oriental nation, from the time of Ham and Shem, who were both saved in the ark, had the flood been then recorded, the extravagant numbers handed down by the priests of lower Egypt would have been refuted without trouble.

In respect to the sarcasm thrown against the conclusion of the third age, like the chasm in the pedigree at the commencement, it serves to strengthen, rather than invalidate, Hindu history. For Yudhishthir was equidistant, from the first

created, with Chryser of Sanchoniatho, whom he names Hephæstus, or Vulcan, who was

crated and worshipped under the name of Diomichius. Therefore that Yudhishthir, of the same race, and same generation, is considered as related to the Gods, at the period when the race of Cain were considered as such, ought rather to be taken in proof, that this prince was of that race, than represented as a legend fit only to adorn a fabulous tale. At this time, the end of the third age, we have seen the Sun and Moon, which were formerly worshipped, deposed, and mortals consecrated as Gods. Yudhishthir is said to be the son of Dherma or Justice; an epithet, rather than a name, and frequently given to the third generation in the race of Atri; probably the Budha of the Lunar dynasty, certainly Enoch, the son of Cain, from whom Yudhisthir descended. We are not therefore to consider Yudhishthir as his immediate son, but as a son of that house; in like manner as Ezra is said to be the son of Seraiah, although it appears that three generations had passed between them. So is Azariah called the son of Meraioth, in the seventh chapter of Ezra, although in the first of Chronicles chap. vi. ver. 6 to 11, it is proved that seven generations had passed between them. Buddha, the son of Máyá, is considered as the God of Justice, and the ox, which is sacred to him, is termed

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