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committing them to the Ganges, as is ufually obferved 

 in refpect to thefe pujhpa, or flowers; a term by which 

 the Hindus affect to diftinguifti thofe refiduary veftiges 

 of their friends dying natural deaths, that are not con- 

 fumed by the fire, to which their corpfes are generally 

 expofed, according to the tenets of their religion. 



But I am myfelf inclined to give the preference to 

 a conclufion differing from either of the two former, 

 viz. that the bones found in thefe urns muft belong to 

 one of the worfhippers of Buddha, a fet of Indian 

 heretics, who, having no reverence for the Ganges, 

 ufed to depofit their remains in the earth, inftead of 

 committing them to that river; a furmife that feems 

 ftrongly corroborated by the circumftance of a flatue 

 or idol of Buddha having been found in the fame 

 place under ground, and on the fame occafion with 

 the difcovery of the urns in queftion, on which w r as 

 an infcription, as per the accompanying copy of the 

 original, afcertaming that a temple had between 7 or 

 800 years ago 6een conitructed there for the worfhip 

 of that deitv. 





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