250 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIX, 
who taste, or wash in, the abundant streams which flow there- 
from are healed.’ On the Rock traces of the Peacock’s feet 
are visible. No traces of peacock’s feet are now visible at 
the Little Mount, Mylapore, the traditional site of St. Thomas’ 
death; yet traces of St. Thomas’ feet are still shown (!), even 
though other such traces have disappeared since 150, and 
we not unnaturally think that the stories picked up by 
Hiien T’sang might have been related even in Upper India by 
Christians in connection with the well at Little Mount, where 
St. Thomas quenched the thirst of his hearers. Oragain these 
stories might have been borrowed from Christians and applied 
to Buddha by his worshippers. 
There is more to be quoted from Mrs. E. A. Gordon’s 
World-Healers. “In reading Huen T’sang’s records I am 
struck by a group of facts connected with that region 
[Udayana, between Chitral and the Indus north of Gandara], 
viz., the above Story of the PEACOCK : that of Sakra? taking 
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that here were visible the Foot-prints of Budhha when He 
conquered the DRAGON (pp. 151, 349: [to which references 
the good old lady added in the copy presented to me: pp. 354, 
413-414, 482]); that when famine and disease prevailed every- 
tribes of this region (p. 16.8 Buddhist Records, vol. 1, 
p. IL9ff. 
“All these are Mahayanist incidents, and find their 
counterpart in the Christian Bible.’ Cf. op. cit., I, p. 124 n. 3. 
We should add to them that other striking parallel in which 
Hien T’sang speaks of Buddha [S 
his flesh to the hungry. Ibid., p. 15 
have been compiled by Capt. F. Wilford in Asiatick Researches, 
X. 27-126 Wilford reaches the acme of feeling prompted by 
the remarkable nature of his own discoveries, when, at p. 57. he 

A reference is given for this last statement: Travels of Fa-Hien, 
p. 65. 
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