JOURNAL 



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THE ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



No. 54. — June, 1836. 



I. — Notes on the Buddhas from Ceylonese authorities, with an attempt to 

 fix the dates of the appearance of the last four ; being those of the 

 Mahd Bhadra Kalpa, for Present Age.) By Captain J. Forbes, 

 77. M. 78th Highlanders. 



1. Of the Buddhas who appeared prior to the Mahd Bhadra 

 Kalpa, the names of the earliest Buddhas mentioned in Buddhist writ- 

 ings, are 



Brahma Buddha. 

 Gautama Buddha*. 

 Tanhankara. 

 Medhankara. 

 Saranankara. 

 The following are the names of twenty-four Buddhas, who succes- 

 sively foretold the advent and exaltation of the present Gautama 

 Buddha. 



1 Deepankara, 





12 Sujato, 



2 Kondhanyo, 





13 Piadassi, 



3 Mangalo, 





14 Athadassi-Atthadasgip 



4 Sumano, 





15 Dhammadassi, 



5 Reweto, 





16 Siddatto, 



6 Sobhito, 





17 Tisso, 



7 Anomadassi, 





18 Cusso, 



8 Pad urn o, 





19 Wipassi, 



9 Narado, 





20 Sikhi, 



10 Padumutto, 





21 Wissabhu. 



11 Sumedo, 







Commencement of the Mahd Bhadra Kalpa. 





22 Kakusanda, 





23 



Konagamma, 





24 



Kasyiapa. 



* 



Not the Gautama Buddha now worshipped. 



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