beholding these scenes of rapture, and the hearts of the just kindled like touchwood on hearing these ravishing symphonies. Thus Seeva set off like a garden in full blow, and Paradise was eclipsed by his motion.--MAURICE, _from the Seeva-Pooraun_. {235} _Thereat the heart of the Universe stood still._--X. p. 94. After these lines were written, I was amused at finding a parallel passage in a sermon: _Quando o Sol parou às vozes de Josuè, aconteceram no mundo todas aquellas consequencias, que parando o movimento celeste, consideram os Filosofos. As plantas por todo aquelle tempo nam creceram; as calidades dos elementos, e dos mixtos, nam se alteraram; a geraçam e corrupçam com que se conserva o mundo, cessou; as artes e os exercicios de hum e outro Emisferio estiveram suspensos; os Antipodas nam trabalhavam, porque lhes faltava a luz, os de cima cançados de tam comprido dia deixavam o trabalho; estes pasmados de verem o Sol que se nam movia; aquelles tambem pasmados de esperarem pelo Sol, que nam chegava; cuidavam que se acabàra para elles a luz; imaginavam que se acabava o mundo: tudo era lagrimas, tudo assombros, tudo horrores, tudo confusoens_.--VIEYRA, Sermoens, _tom. ix. p._ 505. _Surya._--X. p. 105. _Surya_, the Sun. The poets and painters describe his car as drawn by seven green horses, preceded by _Arun_, or the Dawn, who acts as his charioteer, and followed by thousands of genii, worshipping him, and modulating his {236} praises. Surya is believed to have descended frequently from his car in a human shape, and to have left a race on earth, who are equally renowned in the Indian stories with the Heliadai of Greece. It is very singular that his two sons, called _Aswinau_, or _Aswinicumarau_, in the Dual, should be considered as twin brothers, and painted like Castor and Pollux; but they have each the character of Æsculapius among the gods, and are believed to have been born of a nymph, who, in the form of a mare, was impregnated with sun-beams.--Sir W. JONES. That sun, O daughter of Ganga! than which nothing is higher, to which nothing is equal, enlightens the summit of the sky--with the sky enlightens the earth--with the earth enlightens the lower worlds;--enlightens the higher worlds, enlightens other worlds;--it enlightens the breast,--enlightens all besides the breast.--Sir W. JONES, _from the Veda_. _Forgetful of his Dragon foe._--X. p. 105.