a small town of Northern Hindustan, the capital of a small district of the same name, and tributary to the Ghorkali rajah of Nepaul. Long. 82. 10. E. Lat. 28. 9. N.

DEUNX, in Roman antiquity, 11 ounces, or ⅓ of the Libra.

DEUTEROCANONICAL, in the school theology, an appellation given to certain books of Scripture, which were added to the canon after the rest, either by reason of their not being written till after the compilation of the canon, or of some dispute as to their canonicity. The word is Greek, being compounded of διαγραφή, second, and κανόνις, canonical.

The Jews, it is certain, acknowledged several books in their canon, which were inserted there at a later period than the rest. They say, that under Esdras a great assembly of their doctors, which they call by way of eminence the Great Synagogue, made the collection of the sacred books which we now have in the Hebrew Old Testament; and they agree that this assembly put books therein which had not been so before the Babylonish captivity, such as those of Daniel, Ezekiel, Haggai, and those of Esdras and Nehemiah.

The Roman Catholic church has since added others to the canon, which were not, and could not be, in the canon of the Jews, by reason that some of them were not composed till afterwards. Such is the book of Ecclesiasticus, with several of the apocryphal books, as the Maccabees, Wisdom of Solomon, &c. Others were added at a still later period, by reason that their canonicity had not yet been examined; and till such examination and judgment took place they might be set aside at pleasure. But since that church has pronounced as to the canonicity of these books, there is no more room now for her members to doubt of them, than there was for the Jews to doubt of those of the canon of Esdras; and the deuterocanonical books are with them as canonical as the protocanonical; the only difference between them consisting in this, that the canonicity of the one was not generally known, examined, and settled, as soon as that of the others.

The deuterocanonical books in the modern canon are the book of Esther, either the whole, or at least the last seven chapters; the Epistle to the Hebrews; that of James; that of Jude; the second epistle of St Peter; the second and third epistles of St John; and the book of the Revelation. The deuterocanonical parts of books are, in Daniel, the hymn of the three children; the prayer of Azariah; the histories of Susannah, and of Bel and the Dragon; the last chapter of St Mark; the bloody sweat, and the appearance of the angel, related in St Luke (chap. xxiii); and the history of the woman taken in adultery, in St John (chap. viii).

DEUTERONOMY, one of the sacred books of the Old Testament, being the last of those written by Moses (see Pentateuch). The word is Greek, being compounded of διάβασις, second, and νόμος, law.

Deuteronomy was written in the fortieth year after the delivery from Egypt, in the country of the Moabites, beyond Jordan; Moses being then in the hundred and twentieth year of his age. It contains, in Hebrew, eleven parashes, though only ten in the edition of the rabbin at Venice; twenty chapters, and nine hundred and fifty-five verses. In the Greek, Latin, and other versions, it contains thirty-four chapters; but the last is not by Moses; and some say that it was added by Joshua immediately after Moses's death, which is the most probable opinion; whilst others contend that it was added by Esdras.

DEUTEROPOTMI, in Grecian antiquity, a designation given to such of the Athenians as had been thought dead, and, after the celebration of the funeral rites, unexpectedly recovered. It was unlawful for the deuteropotmi to enter into the temple of the Eumenides, or to be admitted to the holy rites, till after they were purified, by being let through the lap of a woman's gown, that they might seem to be born again.

DEUTEROSIS, the Greek name which the Jews applied to their Mishnah or second law.

DEUTSCHKRONE, a circle in the Prussian government of Dantzig. It extends over 785 square miles, or 602,400 English acres, comprising five towns and 27,046 inhabitants. The chief place, of the same name, is situated between the two lakes Armis and Radunsee. It has a Catholic and Lutheran church, with 2015 inhabitants.

DEVAPRAYAGA, a town of Northern Hindustan, in the province of Serinagur, situated at the junction of the Bhagarathi and Alcmando rivers, the union of which forms that part of the Ganges held most sacred by the Hindus, the bathing in which is supposed to purify them from all their sins. This is one of the five principal prayags, or holy points where two rivers meet, mentioned in the Shastras, and is considered as peculiarly sacred. The town stands on a scarp of the mountain, about a hundred feet above the water. It contains only two hundred and fifty houses, which are built of stone, two stories high, and covered with shingles. In the upper part of the town stands the celebrated temple of Ramachandra, constructed of large blocks of cut stone, piled up without mortar to the height of sixty feet. The presiding deity is an image about six feet high, cut in black stone, the lower part of which is painted red. The town is chiefly inhabited by Brahmans of different sects, who draw rich contributions from the superstition of the pilgrims; besides which they have an estate consisting of twenty-five villages. The town and temple suffered much by an earthquake in the year 1803. The latter was repaired at the expense of Dowlut Rao Scindia. Long. 78. 31. E. Lat. 30. 3. N.

DEVA, or Diemrich, a market-town of the Austrian province of Siebenbergen. It is built on the river Maros, and is defended by an ancient castle, which overlooks it. It contains a Catholic, a Greek, and a Protestant church, with about 2500 inhabitants, chiefly of Wallachian origin, who are employed in cultivating the vine. Long. 22. 51. 25. E. Lat. 45. 52. 8. N.