NOTES TO THE DELUGE.

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[157] See the very valuable papers of this gentleman in the Bombay Transactions.

[158] The editor remarks, that the name Manuja, Man-born, as the appellative of the human race, is derived from Manu, as likewise MÁnawas, masc. Man—MÁnawi, fem. Woman: from thence the Gothic Mann, which we have preserved. Manu is thus the representative of Man.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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