Bauddhas, who were either his disciples or those of a younger Bud- 

 dha, or so named from Buddhi, because they admit no Supreme 

 Divinity, but intellect."* 



The reader has now been presented with all the various opinions, 

 concerning this singular Avatar, of the Indian literati ; he has like- 

 wise before him such native accounts of the history of Buddha as I 

 could collect from the sources hitherto investigated, which, after all, 

 we see, Mr. Wilford considers as insufficient for the full display of his 

 character and doctrines. These accounts, however, so minute as to 

 the place and time of his birth, in my humble judgement amply de- 

 monstrate the true Buddha to have been an Hindoo, and not a fo- 

 reigner ; a rigid penitent, like SAC YA, not a triumphant conqueror, 

 like SESAC. Added to this, Buddha is throughout these accounts 

 considered as the preserver of life, not the destroyer of it ; as the 

 benevolent friend of his species, not the merciless exterminator of 

 mankind. It unfolds a stupendous system of human penance, 

 founded on the extensive basis of the Metempsychosis. It exhibits 

 man as coming into the world a miserable delinquent; it consequently, 

 in a most powerful manner, confirms the scripture-doctrine of 

 THE FALL; and it finally and unanswerably establishes that grand 

 principle, (let it be denominated system, or by whatever other odious 

 term the sceptic pleases,) on which this work originally set out, that 

 throughout Asia, and particularly in India, amidst the immense 

 mass of its mythological superstitions, are to be found, as deeply as 

 widely diffused, the evident vestiges of the primitive patriarchal 

 doctrines, for many centuries preserved inviolably sacred in the first 

 virtuous branches of Shem, the father and founder of the Persian 

 empire ; that Shem who I have more than once observed was, in the 



* Asiatic Researches, vol. iii. p. 157. 

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