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APPENDIX. 



Introductory Remarks, intended to have ac- 

 companied Captain Mahony's Paper on Ceylon, 

 and the Doctrines of Buddha, published in the 

 Seventh Volume of the Asiatic Researches, but 

 inadvertentlif omitted in publishing that Volume. 



BY J. H. HAEINGTON, ESQ. 



I HAVE the pleasure of laying before the Society' 

 a paper on the island of Ceylon, and on the reH- 

 gious opinions of the greater part of its inhabi- 

 tants, the worshippers of Boodh, or Buddha, 

 whose religion and philosophy appeared to Sir W. 

 Jones, " connected with some of the most curious 

 *' parts o^ Asiatic history*," and the period of his 

 appearance an important epoch in Hindoo Chrono- 

 logy f. 



This paper, which has been procured by the 

 Honourable Mr. Dukcan, from Captain Mahoxy, 

 an officer of the Bombay establishment, for some 

 time resident on the Island of Ceylon, has, with 

 another paper already communicated to the Society 

 by Captain Mackenzie, anticipated and super- 

 seded some cursory remarks written by myself, 

 during a short residence at Columbo, in the year 

 1797 ; and which I had hoped to render more wor- 

 thy of perusal, on receiving a translation of the 

 Peeroxvand Potd^ an ancient book composed in the 

 P^/ilanguage by ^Axunda' Ma'ha Tiru'na'shee, 



* Asiatic Researches, Volume I, page 35i. 

 •f- Discourse on the Hindus, Asiatic Researches, Volume I, 

 Vol. VJIl. M m 



