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on the crown of his head, wrapt in a squalid mantle, and with a broom 

 in his hand. Buddha presented himself to the Dityas, and was 

 kindly received by them ; but, when they expressed their surprise 

 at his foul vesture, and the singular implement which he carried, he 

 told them, that it was cruel, and consequently impious, to deprive any 

 creature of life; that, whatever might be said in the Vedas, every 

 sacrifice of an animal was an abomination, and that purification 

 itself was wicked, because some small insect might be killed in 

 bathing or washing cloth ; that he never bathed, and constantly 

 swept the ground before him, lest he should tread on some innocent 

 reptile : he then expatiated on the inhumanity of giving pain to the 

 playful and harmless kid, and reasoned with such eloquence, that 

 the Dityas wept, and abandoned all thought of ablution and sacri- 

 fice. As this Maya, or illusive appearance, of Veeshnu, frustrated 

 the ambitious project of the Dityas, one of Buddha's titles is the Son 

 of Maya : he is also named Sacyasinha, or the lion of the race of 

 Sacya, from whom he descended, an appellation which seems to 

 intimate that he was a conqueror or a warrior as well as a phi- 

 losopher. Whether Buddha was a sage or a hero, the leader of a 

 colony or a whole colony personified, whether he was black or 

 fair, whether his hair was curled or straight, if indeed he had any 

 hair, (which a commentator on the Bhagavat denies,) whether he 

 appeared ten, or two hundred,* or a thousand years, after Creeshna, 

 it is very certain that he was not of the true Indian race : in all his 

 images, and in the statues of Bauddhas, male and female, which are 

 to be seen in many parts of these provinces, and in both peninsulas, 

 there is an appearance of something Egyptian or Ethiopian ; and 

 both in features and dress they differ widely from the ancient 

 Hindoo figures of heroes and demi-gods. Sacya has a resemblance 



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