Chap. III. ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. 309 



And thus, I think, it is proved, that the Egyptians were diflin- 

 guifhed, and remarkably diftinguifhed, by their woolly hair, not 

 only from other nations, but particularly from the Indians : And, 

 therefore, we know, that thofe idols of black woolly haired men, to 

 be feen in 'India and the neighbouring countries, are images of 

 Egyptian men, by the fame token that Herodotus knew the Colchi- 

 ans to be originally from Egypt. And, indeed, this makes fo great 

 a difference in men, that, if there had been no other proof of the 

 Egyptians having come to India, and having given the people there 

 religion, arts, and civility, than thofe idols of black men with wool- 

 ly hair, fo different in their appearance from the natives of India 

 and all the other people in that part of the world, I (hould have 

 thought it fufhcient. 



With refpedt to thofe black woolly haired idols in India, it is 



proper to obferve another thing that has not been taken notice of by 



any of the writers upon the antiquities of Egypt and India : It is 



what Arrian tells us in the paffage above quoted *, that the name of 



a fucceffor of Ofiris in India, was (Bovhot,i. Now, this Boudyas 



is well known in India, under the name of Boudha f ; and is 



adored as a divinity, under the figure of a black woolly haired 



man. It appears, that his religion was propagated, not only to 



India, but to many of thofe eaftern countries, fuch as Siam and 



China ; and even to the Iflands of Ceylon and Japan. In the 



Ifland of Ceylon he is known by the name of Budu \ ; for, as 



his religion was propagated to fo many different countries, his 



name w^as differently pronounced according to the different dia- 



ledls of thofe countries, but always with a fimilitude, greater or lefs, 



to the original name of Boudyas. Mr Bailly, in his letter upon the 



origin 

 • Page 302. 



\ Sec M. de Guigne's Treatife upon the Religion of India, in the 40th vol. of the 



Memoires of the French Academy, p. 197. 



X La Croze, torn. 2. p. 349. 



