The rose garden of Persia . achedby the ten men, he conquered his passion, und^changed her into tenbodies, one of which he gave to each of the munies (i. e. men). (69) God cannot account for the love he beais his creatures.—Sliaster. (70) Brimha is sometimes represented in the form of an infant,T with his toe in his mouth, floating on a comala, or water flower,^1/ and sometimes on a leaf of that plant, upon the waters. The ?^^ Brahmins mean by this allegory, that at the time of the renovation1 of the world, the wisdom and designs of G-od will app^r as in ,n^ their infancy. Brimha floating on a


The rose garden of Persia . achedby the ten men, he conquered his passion, und^changed her into tenbodies, one of which he gave to each of the munies (i. e. men). (69) God cannot account for the love he beais his creatures.—Sliaster. (70) Brimha is sometimes represented in the form of an infant,T with his toe in his mouth, floating on a comala, or water flower,^1/ and sometimes on a leaf of that plant, upon the waters. The ?^^ Brahmins mean by this allegory, that at the time of the renovation1 of the world, the wisdom and designs of G-od will app^r as in ,n^ their infancy. Brimha floating on a leaf shows the instability of .i things at that period; his toe, which he sucks, implies thai: Infinite ?*\u Wisdom subsists of itself, and the jrasitionof Biamhas body is anj[ emblem of the endless circle of eternity. Wg: see him sometimescreeping forth from a winding shell, to typify the unsearchableways in which Divine Wisdom issues forth. Brimh, or the Divi-A nity, has a thousand nam^.—yS^ee Dovis HindostmK, ^^. f-»^>8 )K > >a VON HAMMBB. t j GAEGIN DB TASSY. ; . , HITAPODBSA, & NEW OBIENTAL MONUMBNS LTBIO POBTBY OB 03? OEIENT. , , ABABIO APHOBISIJB. -MU- >[?< - ^ -V*^H


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