Note 30 — Chapter III

The Greeks were accustomed to compare with their own all the divinities of the most distant foreign nations; and a similarity in the name, or in any thing else, made them immediately find in them Grecian deities. Thus the Deva-Nishi was Dionysius; the Neith of the Egyptians, Minerva or Athene; their Serapis, Jupiter; their Horus, Apollo, &c.—The river Allakantara in La Rochette’s map of 1788 is called Allaknanda, and in Mannert’s map Allaknandra. F.