58 Captain Jaurs Low on Bupp#a and the Phrabdt. 
When Bupp,na had subdued these Yakshas, he determined to extirpate 
them ; but not by shedding their blood, since that would have been con- 
trary to the principles he professed to act upon. He therefore ordered 
the island Kiri Dwipa to appear ; and instantly it began to float of itself 
towards Ceylon. When it arrived, the Yakshas were collected and put 
upon it, and it was then again set adrift on the face of the ocean.* 
This expulsion of the Yakshas is asserted to have happened when Bupp wa 
was thirty-five years old; consequently 588 B.C., and forty-five years pre- 
vious to his entering Nivdn : at which last period, according to the Bali 
Ratana Kalapa, Asarasatuv reigned in Raja Gaha.t 
The Siamese also assert, that about the time when Buppja entered 
Nivdn, Ceylon began to be peopled ; and that then a prince called Wicuat, 
a son of Raja Sinena Puananu, of the Singha country, went to Ceylon to 
establish the Buddhist religion.t 
includes five thousand years; which last is the exact period allotted by the Siamese for that of 
their Bupp,HA, as specified in the Milinda Raja, a Bali work. Some have supposed that this 
avatar has reference to Noau, and that he visited India. Like BkAuma and Baccnus, he planted 
the vine in the countries through which he travelled; but the parallel betwixt them and the 
latter Bupp,HA cannot be carried so far ; since this last, during his peregrination, inculcated, as a 
main article of his doctrine, a total abstinence from wine. According to Bryant, Dionusgs, 
Baccuvs, and Bupp,nA, all, in respect to worship, have reference to the sun. 
* This description may remind the reader versed in Indian lore, of the White Island of the 
Sanscrit legend, supposed by a celebrated writer to allude to Britain. (a) No account, however, 
is given by the Buddhists, as far as I have yet been able to discover, of the place where this 
island, Kirt Dwépa, rested. Perhaps the fable may have reference to some catastrophe by 
which Ceylon was separated from the continent. 
+ If Bupp,a really visited Ceylon at this period, it could scarcely have been his first visit : for 
he went to Vamian, to defeat the schemes of the Daityas, when he was “seven years above eight 
old ;"(4) and “he obtained a victory over Mara and his hosts on the “sixth month of the ninth 
year of the cycle.”(c) 
+ According to Wilford,(d) Ceylon was depopulated by the wars of Ravan (the TuoTsaKan 
of the Siamese), and remained in that state for 1845 years. Which Ravan was, according to the 
Puranas, the brother of Cavéra, and flourished ann. 1800 B.C. This account seems to corres- 
pond with that supplied by Lieut. Mahony, in his work on Ceylon; who observes, that Vis1RAJA 
and his followers came in a ship from the eastward in the sixth century B.C. Nearly about the 
same period, when according to the text, Bupp,HA entered into Nivan, or Immortality ; and when 
his 
(a) Asiatic Researches. (b) Asiatic Researches. 
(c) Bali Ratana Kalapa. (d) Asiatic Researches. 
