100 Stonehenge and its Barrows. 



conclusion that Stonehenge owes its origin to the Brahmins, and 

 that it was a temple of Boodh.' 



In the appendix to " Asiatick Researches/^ vol. ii ., Calcutta, 

 1790, p. 488, Mr. Reuhen Burrow writes as follows: "From the 

 aforesaid country (the Bengal district) the Hindoo religion probably- 

 spread over the whole earth : there are signs of it in every northern 

 country, and in almost every system of worship : in England it is 

 obvious : Stonehenge is evidently one of the temples of Boodh ; 

 and the arithmetic, the astronomy, astrology, the holidays, games, 

 names of the stars, and figures of the constellations ; the ancient 

 monuments, laws, and even the languages of the different nations have 



the strongest mark of the same original That the 



Druids of Britain were Brahmins is beyond the least shadow of a 

 doubt, but that they were all murdered and their science lost, is out 

 of the bounds of probability ; it is much more likely that they 

 turned Schoolmasters and Freemasons and Fortune-tellers, and in 

 this way part of their sciences might easily descend to posterity, as 

 we find they have done." 



Mr. Maurice, in the sixth volume of his " Indian Antiquities," 

 (1801,) discusses at length the resemblance between the doctrines and 

 forms of worship of the Druids and those of the Brahmins, and comes 

 to the conclusion that at some remote period, the two orders were 

 united, or at least were educated, in the same grand school with the 

 magi of Persia and the seers of Babylon. " To satisfy ourselves 

 that the race who erected the stupendous circular temple of Stone- 

 henge were a tribe of Brachmans, of the sect of Boodh, we have only 

 to call to mind the peculiar predominant superstition of that tribe, 

 which, according to Lucian, was the adoration of the sun, as a secon- 

 dary deity, in a circular dance, expressive of his supposed revolution : 



Taylor can be classed as Celtic or Druidical, a possibility, at all events, must be 

 shown that Celts, in the true sense of the word, could ever have inhabited the 

 Dekhan. Till that is done, it is better to leave them anonymous, or to call 

 them by their native names, than to give to them a name which is apt to mislead 

 the public at large, and to encourage theories which exceed the limits of legiti- 

 mate speculation." — " Chips from a German Workshop," iii., 281—2. 



I The Welsh Triads connect the British Isles with Ceylon, which was the 

 great seat of Buddhism. — See Borlase's History of Cornwall, c. X2ai. 



