“J’ai remarqué,” says the philosopher Bailly, “que les Brames aimaient à être appellés Paramènes, par respect pour la mémoire de leurs ancêtres, qui portoient ce nom.”[235] Monsieur Gebelin is more explicit. “Pausanias nous dit, que Mercure, le même que Butta, ou Budda, un des fondateurs de la doctrines des Paramènes, ou Brames, est appellé Paramon.”[236] This Paramon, who had seceded from the Budhist doctrine, and placed himself at the head of that sect who still bear his name, was the son of _Budh-dearg_, a religious denomination, most painfully inexplicable to inquirers into those matters, but which _one, at least_, from his acquaintance with the Irish language, should have better known. “I think,” says Vallancey, “_dearg_ is a contraction for _darioga_, rex supremus, which corresponds with the Chaldæan _darag_, dux, an epithet given to _Budya_!” All those words, in fact, _dearg_, _darioga_, and _darag_, are _one and the same_, adjuncts, it is true, of Budya, but meaning neither _dux_, _rex_, nor _supremus_, except inasmuch as they were _his_ epithets, the correct rendering being _red_, which, added to Budh, signifies the _Red Lingam_, the _Sardana-palus_, the _Eocad_, the _Penis sanctus_, the _god_ of _nature_, the _ruber palus_, the _Helio-go-balus_, the _corporeal spirit_, the _agent of production_, the _type of life_, as it is also the _concurrent symbol of universal dissolution_. These several terms, which are, each and all, convertible, pourtray not only the procreative powers of the _male_ world personified, but likewise its symbols, which were the _Round Towers_; and not these only, but _Obelisks_[237] also, and _naturally erect_ stones,[238] which though not circularly fashioned, yet typified, in their ascension, the upward bent of all vegetable growth. This is the true solution of those enigmatical _lithoi_, by which the ancients represented the _bounty_ of Providence. _Maghody_ was the name appropriated to him under this character; and the import of this word conveying, literally, the idea of the _Good God_, shows the philosophic feeling, no less than it does the religious seriousness, of the grateful contrivers.[239] And while reminded by the thought, perhaps I may be permitted, with humble deference, to suggest to literary gentlemen occupied in the translation of Eastern manuscripts, that whenever they meet with any proper name of the inconceivable Godhead, or of any place or temple devoted to his use, and beginning with the word _Magh_; such as _Magh_-Balli-Pura;[240] they should not render _Magh_ by _great_,--which hitherto had been the practice,--but by _good_; as it is not the _power_ of the divinity that is thereby meant to be signified, but his _bounty_: such as his votaries chiefly supplicated, and such as was most influential to ensure their fealty.