the orb of the sun personified and adored by a sect of Hindoos as a god. He seems to be the same divinity with the Phœbus of Greece and Rome; and the sect who pay him particular adoration are called Sauras. Their poets and painters describe his car as drawn by seven green horses, preceded by Aruna, or the Dawn, who acts as his charioteer, and followed by thousands of genii worshipping him and modulating his praises. He has a multitude of names, and among them Asiatic Re-

twelve epithets which denote his distinct powers in each search, of the twelve months; and he is believed to have de-

scended frequently from his car in a human shape, and to have left a race on earth, who are equally renown-

ed in the Indian stories with the Heliadai of Greece: it is singular, that his two sons called Auvinaur or As-

vinicumarau, in the dual, should be considered as twin-

brothers, and painted like Castor and Pollux.