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the Coptic ai'ticle to tlie vowel form "would give some Buch "word as 

 Bodaii or Buodan ; but, "with, the aspii-ate, it would make the Mseso- 

 gothic Vodans and the old Saxon Wuodan or Wodan, which the 

 old High German, strictly in accordance "with Grimm's law here, 

 changes to Wuotan. The final n, which so far has appeared in every 

 form of our word, is not an essential part of it. The Frisian Weda 

 drops it, and it is wanting in the Welsh Aedd, in which we see the 

 Danish Gud and the German Goti. Now this is the same as the 

 Choda of the Persian, a language that has many remarkable points 

 of resemblance to the Germanic tongues. The same word is found 

 in the Sanskrit, and survives in the Hindustani Khuda. But the 

 names of Buddha, which are by no means well understood, are 

 simply the names for God with the termination restored, not as n, 

 but as m. These are Codam, Godama, Gotama or Gautama ; and 

 give us back again the Gotan and Guotan of the Teutonic dialects. 

 A link of great importance is furnished by a name of Woden, 

 Wegtam, the Wanderer, which preserves the initial g along with the 

 softened form of the Coptic article, and gives the termination of 

 Gautama. Buddha, different as it appears in every respect from the 

 word with which it is often ignorantly joined, is in reality the same, 

 having doubtless come into the Sanskrit through some other channel 

 than that by which Gautama entered. In it we find the final liquid 

 wanting, the German w, in plain disregai'd of Grimm's law, changed 

 to h, and the Frisian Weda reproduced. In confirmation of this I 

 may refer to the case of identity already established between the 

 Germanic wot or wuot and the Sanskrit hudh, to perceive or know, 

 of which the Welsh form is by no accidental coincidence gwyddoni. 

 Thus in Buddha, Wotan and Gwydion we find not only the supreme 

 god of the northern families of the Aryan stock, but also the symbol 

 of knowledge among those difierent peoples. 



(To ie continued.) 



