l68 AM ACCOUNT OF THE SCULPTURE*, 



" manner as the firamins were ufed to attribute their 

 " inftitution to Brahma*." 



The authority of Clemens Alexandrimus is alfo 

 cited on the fame fubject by Relandus in his 11th 

 Differtation, where, treating of the language of Ceylon^ 

 he explains the word Vehar, above fpoken of, in thefe 

 terms : 



" Vehar fignifies a temple of their principal God 

 <c Buddou, who, as Clemens Alexandrinus has long 

 " ago obferved, was worfhipped as a God by the 

 " Hindoost." 



After the above quotations, the following extract 

 from the voyage of that inquifitive and ingenious tra- 

 veller M. Gen'til, publifhed in 1779, is given as a 

 further and very remarkable lllultration of this fubject. 



" This fyftem is alfo that of the Bramins of our 

 c; time; it forms the bafis of that religion which they 

 M have brought with them into the fouthern parts of the 

 " Peninfula of Hmdoftan, into Madura, Tanjore. and 

 " Maiffore. 



u There was then in thofe parts of India, and prin- 

 " cipally on the Coafl of Choromandel and Ceylone, a 



fort 



* " L'Echisi nousinstruitsur lareligion que professoit ce Prince, 

 " en disant que son cuke s'adressoit a Bodda, que selon St. Je- 

 " eome & St. Clement d'Alexandrie, avoit ete l'instituteur des 

 " Gymnosophistes tomme les Brachmanes rapportotieot a Brahma 

 *' leur institut." Ant. Geog. de L'Inde, p. 94. 



f " Vehar, templum dei pritnarii Buddoe (3ovrra quem Indus ut 

 " Deum venerari jam dim notavit Clemens Alexandriuus." Storm. 

 lib. ]. p. 223. Rel. Diss, pars tertia, p. 85. 



