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Varuna and the demon Vitri both derive their names from var, vri, to cover, to enfold.
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Mythology of the Aryan Nations has been published. At page 78, vol. 2, speaking of the youth of Paris, the seducer of Helen, he says:--
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In his early life he has the love of Oinônê, the child of the river-god Kebrên, and thus a being akin to the bright maidens who, like Athenê and Aphroditê, are born from the waters. In a note he adds
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Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, the map of Eastern Equatorial Africa, which accompanied a paper, published in the third volume of
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Asiatic Researches, in 1801. Speke, referring to this paper, says:--
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It was written by Lieutenant Wilford, from the 'Purans' of the ancient Hindus.... It is remarkable that the Hindus have christened the source of the Nile _Amara_, which is the name of a country at the north-east corner of the Victoria N'yanza. This, I think, shows clearly, that the ancient Hindus must have had some kind of communication with both the northern and southern ends of the Victoria N'yanza. I find on this map, on the west side of the inland sea styled
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Lake of Amara or of the Gods, a range of hills named
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They are in close contiguity to the
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Mountains of the Moon, and seem to be a lower or inferior branch of that range, bordering upon the waters of the great lake. This appears to be a further confirmation of the high probability which exists that some of the very ancient local nomenclature of Britain and Western Europe is of Eastern origin. Ptolemy speaks not only of a people inhabiting the district of which Lancashire forms a part, which he names the _Setantii_, but of a harbour on the coast, the _Portus Setantiorum_, which I and others have fixed at the Wyre. [See
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History of Preston and its Environs.
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Avatâra of Vishnu was in the form of a tortoise, when Vishnu placed himself under the mountain Mandara, while the gods and demons churned the Milky Sea for ambrosia. This incarnation is called the _Kurma_. This churning appears to have produced other miraculous results. Amongst the