324 Notes on the Buddhas from Ceylonese authorities. [June, 



" Swarochisha, — Auttami, — Tamasa, — Raiwata likewise, and Chac- 

 shusha beaming with glory, and Vaivaswata child of the Sun." 



Chacshusha is evidently the same name as Kakusanda, the final letters 

 being a usual honorary affix in Cingalese. He is called by Bentley, 

 Chaksooso*, by Wilford Chashushaf, by Wilson ChakshusaJ, by 

 Colebrooke Cucuch'handa§ ; he is also called Karkutchand||, 

 Prachanda Dewa^f, and Krakuchanda** ; and appeared as a Menu or 

 Muni, (which in Cingalese is a term applied to a Saint or a Buddha,) 

 previous to Vaivaswata, who by many of the most eminent chronolo- 

 gers has been considered identical with Noah, B. C. 29 84. ft 



The Cingalese works state that Kakusanda was of the race of 

 Sam ata Raja. The first Menu, also the first king, and elected by the 

 people, after they had lost immortality and become subject to earthly 

 passionsj J. 



At the time of Kakusanda Buddha, Adam's peak was called Dewi- 

 yakuta, (peak of God ;) when Konagamma Buddha visited it B. C. 

 2100, the name was Samantkuta, (peak of Saman.) This appellation 

 I should infer from Cingalese history it obtained from Saman§§, 

 brother of Ra'ma ; whose era is fixed by the date of the partial sub- 

 merging of Ceylon, B. C. 2387, which is three years previous to the 

 date of the flood||||, and thus refers Kakusanda Buddha to a period 

 preceding that event. 



The following quotation is from Tod's Annals of Rajasthan ; 

 "Though a passage in the Agni Puran indicates that the line of 

 Surya, of which Icshwaca was the head, was the first colony which 

 entered India from Central Asia, yet we are compelled to place the 

 Patriarch Buddha as his cotemporary, he being stated to have come 

 from a distant region, and married to Ella the sister of Icshwaca." 

 Referring to the era of Rama as already given, viz. B. C. 2387, and 



* Remarks on the eras and dates of the ancient Hindus, Asiatic Res. V. 



+ Wilford's Chronology of the Hindus, Asiatic Res. V. 



X Sanscrit Dictionary. 



§ Colebrooke's observations on the Jains, Asiatic Res. IX. 



|| Asiatic Journal, 1832, p. 380. 



H Asiatic Journal, 1834, p. 220. 



** Asiatic Journal, No. 48, p. 87. 



+T Dr. Lloyd's Bible chronology. 



%X Jananda Pota, (Cingalese work.) 



§§ Saman, Lackshmana, brother of Rama. 



IHI According to Dr. Lloyd's Bible chronology, Noah was born B. C. 2984, 

 and the flood commenced when Noah had lived six hundred years, two month* 

 and seventeen days, Gen. vii. 11 ; or B. C. 2384. 



