I may also refer to the term "Janna" (Janus), as applied to the officer "who had the office of entertaining ambassadors" at the court of Kenghis Khan (_id._ v. 7, p. 40; Rubruquis's Embassy, A.D. 1253, also 56). In the above extract from Rawlinson, although Hoa is said not to be "the true fish-god," yet he is called "the intelligent fish," and is associated with that mystic animal, half man half fish, which came up from the Persian Gulf to teach astronomy and letters to the first settlers on Euphrates and Tigris. Let us compare this information with the following "History of the Fish," which the Abbé Gainet, i. 199, has translated from the Mahâbhârata. The same history has been translated from the Bhagavad Pourana by Sir W. Jones ("Asiatic Researches"). Indeed, as the Abbé Gainet argues, as this same history is found in all the religious poems of India, there is a certain security that it would not have been taken from the Hebrews. I shall merely attempt to give the drift of the legend from the Abbé Gainet's original translation of that portion of the Matysia Pourana which has reference to Noah:-- "The son of Vaivaswata (the sun) was a king, and a great sage, a prince of men, resembling Pradjapati in _eclat_. In his strength, splendour, prosperity, and above all, his penitence, Manou surpassed his father and his grandfather.[156]... One day a small fish approached him, and begged him to remove him from the water where he was, 'because the great fish always eat the little fish--it is our eternal condition.' Manou complies, and the fish promises eternal gratitude. After several such migrations, through the intervention of Manou, the fish at each removal increasing in bulk, he is at length launched in the ocean. The fish then holds this discourse with Manou:--'Soon, oh blessed Manou, everything that is by nature fixed and stationary in the terrestrial world, will undergo a general immersion and a complete dissolution. This temporary immersion of the world is near at hand, and therefore it is that I announce to you to-day what you ought to do for your safety.' He instructs him to build a strong and solid ship, and to enter it with the _seven_ richis or sages.[157] He instructs him also to take with him all sorts of seeds, according to certain Brahminical indications. 'And when you are in the vessel you will perceive me coming towards you, oh well-beloved of the saints, I will approach you with a _horn_ on my head, by which you will recognise me.' Manou did all that was prescribed to him by the fish, and the earth was submerged accordingly, as he had predicted. 'Neither the earth, nor the sky, nor the intermediate space, was visible; all was water.' 'In the middle of the world thus submerged, O Prince of Bharatidians, were seen the seven richis or sages, Manou, and the fish. Thus, O King, did this fish