was indeed an illumination of the Deity. That the great Buddha was exempt from the lot of mortals' death, every Hindu believes that Nara was the divine Spirit that existed before all worlds, the institutes of Menu record, and the Vedas confirm: "The waters are called Nara, because they were the production of Nara or the Spirit of God; and since they were his first Ayana, or place of motion, he thence is called Narayana or moving on the waters." And that by the favour of Narayana, Satyavatar was instituted a Menu, this Purana shews. We may, then, venture to pronounce, that Enoch the great prophet who foretold the flood, the type. of Jesus Christ, was the same as the great Indian Buddha, Narayana, the incarnate God of the Hindus.

The supposition, that Satyavatar is Cainan, militating against the general opinion, it becomes necessary to state the facts on which that supposition is founded.

First, in the solar pedigree, Satyavatar appears as the eldest son of the third generation from Adam.

Secondly, the prophet expressly tells the pious prince, that the epoch of his translation should be the end of the first thousand years, and that he, Satyavatar, should live to see it; all of which was fulfilled. The translation of Enoch was at the

latter end of the first millenary, when Cainan was yet alive, and who lived 248 years after that event; which took place sixty-nine years before the birth of Noah.

Thirdly, the son of the third generation from Adam was named Cainan; which in the Hebrew signifies not only lamentation, but builder of an ark, a nest, or place of safety; which is particularly applicable to Satyavatar and Cainan: First, as the prophecy was made in his time; as he lived to see it confirmed by the translation of the prophet; and as his lamentations, in consequencé thereof, were such, that to weep as Enoch, became a proverb: and secondly, although the ark was not actually built by Cainan, yet as he lived 179° years after the birth of Noah, and until about 400 years before the deluge, there can be little doubt, but that when he transmitted the prophecy to Noah, he assisted in the necessary preparations for fulfilling the command of the Lord, and therefore acquired the name of Cainan, denoting the ark, nest, or place of safety and retirement.

Fourthly, because, in the Chaldean dynasties, it is recorded by Apollodorus, from Berosus, that in the time of Amenon (who was the son of the third generation in the race of Cain) the Musaris Oannes, the Annadotus, the fish deity, made its appearance from the Erythrean sea. Satyavatar,

according to the Hindus, was governor of a province A. M. 420, or when six Menwantaras were past; the Chaldeans place the return of the race of Cain at A. M. 413, or when fifteen myriads of years were past. But these dates allude to the return of the race of Atri, and to the introduction of idolatry, symbolically called the stealing of the Vedas, not to the prophecy. The Hebrews do not tell us, either when Cainan first became a ruler, or when the prophecy was made by Enoch. But they place the birth of the former at A. M. 326, which renders it probable that he might have been a ruler A. M. 426; and the birth of the latter at A. M. 623, rendering it probable that the prophecy was made, at the time stated by the Hindus and Chaldeans, during the third age, or from A. M. 700 to A. M. 900. The Hebrews state the period when Cainan became a sovereign prince by succession at A. M. 1141. The Hindus after A. M. 1100. The Chaldeans believed that the racë of Cain returned after 416 prophetic years, and that the Annadotus, the fish deity, made its appearance in the time of Amenon, during the twenty-seventh Eapos of the rule of the race of Cain; when Amenon, like Satyavatar, ruled over a maritime province. The twenty-sixth Zapos ended A. M. 730, and according to Berosus, this prince did not become a sovereign until A. M. 1085,

when his predecessor Amillarus died. As appears in Table XXII, the time of Amenon was the Antara of Satyavatar. According to Abydinus, therefore, Buddha appeared to this prince about A. M. 729. Aecording to Apollodorus, he again appeared among the Chaldeans 140 years after, when, it is probable, he prophetized of the deluge. This was about A. M. 866, and does not differ materially from 120 years of seven half days. But, as the prophecy was intended for the whole world, it is natural to suppose that it was made in different provinces at different periods.

And fifthly, because the name of this prince is equally expressive in the Hebrew, and in the Sanscrit. In the latter it denotes the age, in which the prince was born. The first age, or first four hundred years of the world, is termed Satya, or Crita, which is the same. The prince to whom the prophecy was made was called Satyavatar, or the Avatar of Satya. To this prince the planet Saturn is dedicated; from which the Satya or first age was called the Saturnian age: Cainan was born seventy-four years before the expiration of the Satya, or first age; and although the third of the nine Avataras, in the generation of patriarchs, his history being blended with that of the Matsya, or fish-god, is always termed the first Avatar, although he was not the first Avatara,

or patriarch. Europeans in general, from not considering, or not knowing the derivation of the words, write the name Satyavrata in lieu of Satyavatar. In like manner they write Menwantara when they intend 71 divine ages, changing Menuuantara, or the Antara of Menu, into Men-wantara*. From the translation of the Matsya Avatar, as given by Sir William Jones, we might suppose Satyavatar to mean Noah. But we must recollect that the translator thought him so, and worded his account accordingly. It is likewise a commonly received opinion among the Hindus, very few of whom study the antediluvian chronology. But this is not confined to our brethren in Asia. Many very pious Christians, who read their Bible through every year, are obliged to refer to the margin, to determine the chronology even of the postdiluvian kings: besides which, the classical Brahmans are interested in deceiving the multitude, Europeans as well as natives. For the deluge being universally admitted to have taken place in the Cali age, and being very accurately traced to the 756th year thereof, had they admitted Satyavatar to have been of the Satya or first age, the two intervening ages could not, according to

Menu in the plural being sounded long, is written Menuu, the two vowels being changed by Europeans into a consonant, they write Men-wan-ta-ra in lieu of Menuu-an-ta-ra.