1834.] or Aborigines of Ntpal. 217 



became satisfied that that was the best place whereat to draw off the 

 waters of the lake. Immediately he struck the mountain with his 

 scimitar, when the sundered rock gave passage to the waters, and the 

 bottom of the lake became dry. He then descended from the moun- 

 tain, and began to Walk about the valley in all directions. As he ap- 

 proached Guhyeswari*, he beheld the water bubbling up violently from 

 the spot, and betook himself' with pious zeal to the task of stopping 

 it. No sooner had he commenced than the ebullition of the water 

 became less violent, when, leaving bare only the flower of the lotos, the 

 root of which was the abode of Guhyeswari, he erected a protecting 

 structure of stone and brick over the recumbent stalk, and called the 

 structure, which rose into a considerable elevation as it neared the 

 flower of the lotos, Satya Giri. This work completed, Manju Sri 

 began to look about him in search of a fit place of residence, and at 

 length constructed for that purpose a small hill, to which he gave the 

 name of Manju Sri Parbata, (the western half of the little hill of Sam- 

 bhii Nath,) and called the desiccated valley, Nepdld — Ne signifying the 

 sender (to paradise), who is Swoyambhu; and pdla, cherished, implying 

 that the protecting genius of the valley was Swoyambhu or Adhi 

 Buddha. Thus the valley got the name of N6pala : and, since very 

 many persons had came from Mount Sirsha [or China] with Manju 

 Sri, for the residence of Dharmakar Raja and his suite, Manju 

 constructed a large place of abode, half way between Mount Swoy- 

 ambhu and Guhyeswari, and named it after himself, Manja Pat- 

 tana, and established therein Dharmakar [of Maha China] , as Raja, 

 subjecting the whole of the inferior sort of people who came from Sirsha 

 Parbata to Dharmakar's rule, and providing abodes for them in the 

 city of Manja Pattana. 



Thus was Nepal peopled : the first inhabitants of which came all 

 from Mount Sirsha [which is in Maha China], and thus the valley got 

 the name of Nepala, and its inhabitants that of Nepali, [whose primi- 

 tive language was Chinese.] [This language in course of time came to 

 be much altered by the immigration of people from Madhya desa, and 

 by the necessary progress of corruption and change in a new country, 



* The site of the temple is near the centre of the valley, on the skirts of the 

 lovely grove of Pasupati ; and above 2$ or 3 miles east from mount Sambhu. 

 The fable says, that the root of the lotos of Guhyeswari was at the former place, 

 and the flower at the latter ; the recumbent stalk being extended throughout the 

 interval between them. Swoyambhu or Adhi Buddha is supposed to reside in 

 the flower, in the form of flame ; Prajana Paramita or Guhyeswari, in or at 

 the root, in the form of water, 



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