﻿414 ON THE RFLIGIOX AND MANNERS 



Bt>uDHOu, in one of his three vovao-es to Lanla- 

 dzcipe, the island or Ceylon, left on the top o? J a man 

 alt Sripade, Adam's peak, the print of one of his 

 feet ; but tliough I have been at great pains to find 

 it out, I have not as yet been able to ascertain whe- 

 ther it was his right or his left foot : and I am con- 

 vinced that it must be, universally, a matter of 

 doubt, for all the feet of Boudhou that I have seen 

 in the temples are so awkwardly made, that there is 

 no distinguishing tlie little toe from the great one. 

 There is also a print of Boudhou's foot at Sianii but 

 from the accounts of travellers, it is equally uncer- 

 tain whether it is his right or his left : it suffices to 

 know, that it is the mark of Boudhou. This not 

 being doubted by any of the Sij?galese, the very 

 good christians excepted, to whom tlie Portuguese 

 priests have clearly proved that this is the mark of 

 Adam's foot. The Boudhists of Ceylon, however, 

 discredit the account of Boudhou having stridden 

 from Siam to Ceylon, having one of his feet at each 

 of these places at tiie same time. As Boudhou M-as 

 but eighteen cubits high, it is a thing impossible ac- 

 cording to their own tenets. 



Gauteme Boudhou Mas the son of a king of 

 GiAMBu DwjPE, called Soudodene Maha Ragia, 

 whose kingdom was one of those seven large stones 

 that I have not been able to learn the nan.es of; his 

 mother was called Maya, or rather AlahaMAYA. — 

 He was there known under the name of Prince 

 Sidharte; he had a son by his wife Jassodera 

 Devi, who M^as called Rahoule, and who succeeded 

 to the throne on the death of his father. Having in 

 vain attempted, during four a.mnkes, more than a 

 hundred thousand mahakalpes, to become Boudhou, 

 he at last made himself a pilgrim. At the end of 

 six years pilgrimage, an account of which is given 

 in a large volume, he became Boudhou ; in forty- 

 five years after, Nwa?ii; having established "an order 

 of things in this Mahakalpe, which is to last 



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