﻿AND THE DOCTRINES OF BHOODDHA. 53 



Kande Koomareyo threw himfelf at his feet, and ob- 

 tained from him extraordinary powers; which, among 

 other things, enable him to cure all difeafes, par- 

 ticularly thoTe of the biood royal, and to perforrn 

 vario IS other miracles. Bhooddha, at the fame time, 

 €nj*)iijed that he fhould not receive divine honors; and 

 thol-" which are now offered up at his temple, have 

 been '.ntiodaced by degrees, with the veneration origi- 

 nal! v d-^creed him. There is a temple built to him in 

 the capital of the Candian dominions, but it is con- 

 fidercd as very inferior to that abovementioned. This 

 has a variety of civil officers, but no priells, belong- 

 ing to it. There is one great feftival here in the year, 

 which takes place on the day of the new moon in July: 

 it concludes after a grand proceffion, (during which 

 fome miraculous circumltances are fuppofed to have 

 taken nlace.) with a variety of rich prefents; a cer- 

 tain part of which are fent tMthe King of Candia. I 

 fliall particularly detail this"^remony on a future oc- 

 cafion. It may prove curious to mention, that Bhoodd- 

 HiSTs. Muileimans, Brahmins, and Hindoos, of every 

 defcription, attend this temple on all public occafions. 

 The head oiricers are ftiled, Mahabitmeh ralehammee, 

 Kccdabltmck ralehammec, and Bafnaikch ralchanimee. 

 Then follow Maha Kapooraieh, and Koodah Kapoo- 

 raleh. 



Some learned Hindoos, whom I lately met on Cey- 

 lon, from liieir fuperior refpccl for Ka^nde Kooma- 

 reyo, expreifed themfeives highly indignant at the 

 above ceremonies, but more particularly at the in- 

 ferior characler the God is fuppofed by the Bhoodd- 

 HisTs to polfefs. This temple, they added, was held 

 by them as the^ favourite one belonging to this God, 

 and was therefore annually vifited by great numbers of 

 Hindoos. Of Kande Koomareyo, they gave me the 

 following account. — " Scand Coomaura" (accord- 

 ing to the Sanfcrit, the proper way of writing the 



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