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in sound to Sisac, and we find Chanac abbreviated from Chanacya ; 

 so that Sisac and Sesonchosis may be corrupted from Sacyasinha, 

 with a transposition of some letters, which we know to be frequent 

 in proper names, as in the. Avord Banares. Many of his statues in 

 India are colossal, nearly naked, and usually represented sitting in a 

 contemplative attitude ; nor am I disinclined to believe, that the 

 famed statue of Memnon, in Egypt, was erected in honour of 

 Mahiman, which has Mahimna in one of its oblique cases, and the 

 Greeks could hardly have pronounced that word otherwise than 

 Maimna or Memna. They certainly use Mai instead of Maha ; for 

 Hesychius expressly says, MJ, peyd. 'ivSoi; and Mai signifies great 

 even in modern Coptic. We are told that Mahiman, by his wife 

 Mahamanya, had a son named Sharmana Cardama, who seems to be 

 the Samana Coclom of the Bauddhas, unless those last words be 

 corrupted from Samanta Gotam, \vhich are found in the Amarcosh 

 among Buddha's names. Cardam, Avhich properly means clay or 

 mud, Avas the first created man, according to some Indian legends ; 

 but the Puranas mention about seven or eight, who claimed the 

 priority of creation. Be this as it may, Cardama lived in Varuna- 

 Chanda, so called from his son Varuna, the god of ocean. 



" The three sects of Jina, Mahiman, and Buddha, Avhatever may 

 be the difference between them, are all named Bauddhas ; and, as 

 the chief laAv, in Avhich, as the Brahmins assert, they make virtue 

 and religion consist, is to preserve the lives of all animated beings, we 

 cannot but suppose, that the founder of their sect Avas Buddha, the 

 ninth Avatar, who, in the Agnipuran, has the epithet of Sacripi, or 

 Benevolent; and, in the Gitagovinda, that of Sadaya-Hridaya, or 

 Tender-Hearted : it is added by Jayadeva, that ' he censured the 

 Avhole Veda, because it prescribed the immolation of cattle.' This 

 alone, we see, has not destroyed their A^eneration for him; but they 

 contend that atheistical dogmas have been propagated by modern 



