﻿or THE PEOPLE OF CETLON". 411 



Whex the Mahakalpe ends, that is, when the 

 system of the worlds is overturned, and that aH is in 

 disorder, the heavens desciihed by tlie minibers 

 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, are in a state of conflagration. 

 Those numliered 13, 14, 15, 10, are laid waste hy 

 violent winds ; and those numbered 17, li^, ly. -0, 

 21, a'2, are inundated. The heavens, called the 

 Aroupelokes, are of a very extraordinary description ; 

 there are many living bodies without souls, or the 

 soul is not the life; and there are souls without 

 bodies, and yet are not spirits, besides several other 

 things equally curious. As each of us may hope to 

 see this when we transmigrate, 1 shall not give a 

 further detail of it. 



THEOGONY. 



There are three kinds of Boudiious, the Laou- 

 iouraSy the Passes, and the Arihats. There is 

 nothing in the world superior to the Laoutouras, 

 One of these is constantly in a Mahakalpe. If there 

 be one, the Mahakalpe is called Sarakalpe ; two, 

 Mandakalpe ; three, IVarakalpt : four, Saramande- 

 kalpe ; fjve, Mahabadre-kalpe. We are in this last, 

 because it bears live Bououous ; four have already 

 ended, having become Nivarii. The fifth will daish 

 M'ith the present Mahakalpe^. The first of these 



five 



* Sir W. Jones, in his Chronology of the Hindoos, vol. ?d of the 

 Asiatic Researches, gives the names of seven Rishis, or holy persons, 

 followers of Vaivaswata, Son of the Sun. Their names are Cas- 



VATA, AtRI, VaSISHTHA, \'i3WAMITRA, GaUTAMA, JaMA- 



DiGNY, and Biaradwaja. Among these seven names are to be 

 found two of the five Boudhous, Kassiapk and Gauteme. I 

 think that the name of Maitri is corrupted into the word Wisiva- 

 MITRA. In the same treatise there is great mention made of Boud- 

 Hoo under the name of Boudha, whom Bagawatamut supposes to 

 be of a colour between white and red. The author of the Amaracosha 

 makes him to be sen of May a : it is said farther on, that le is the son 

 of the moon, a male deity, and that he married Ila, daughter of Menu. 

 From what is said in the Sanscrit books about Boudhu, I conclude 

 that the Brah/n'ms made his history intricate, in order to destroy the 

 l«merabrance of h'lm. 



