1837.] Note on the Geography of Cochin China. 737 



The rija having previously been instructed in the doctrines (of the orthodox 

 faith) readily distinguished that these were not bhikkhus, but heretics. Sup- 

 plying them with white dresses, to be substituted for their sacerdotal yellow 

 vobes, he expelled them : the whole of them amounted to sixty thousand. 



Then sending for the other priests, he thus questioned them, 



" Lords! what faith did the supreme Buddho reveal ?" 



M Maharaja! the *Wibhajja faith ?" 



On receiving this answer, addressing himself to the thero, he asked : " Lordl 

 was the supreme Buddho himself of the Wibkajja faith ?" 



Being answered in the affirmative, the raja then saying " Lord! the religion 

 is now purified : let the priesthood now perform the Upc&atha ;" and conferring 

 on them the royal protection, re-entered the capital. 



The priesthood assembling together performed the Upasatha. The number 

 of bhikkhus who assembled there was sixty lakhs. The bh&ro Moggaliputta- 

 ti^so, suppressing in that community the professions of the creeds of other 

 sects, propounded to them the Katfi&watthuppikaran. And then selecting, and 

 setting apart, from among the sixty lakhs of bhikkhus, one thousand bhikkhus, 

 from amongst those who were the sustainers of the text of the three Pitalcani, 

 who had overcome the dominion of sin which is to be subdued, and who were 

 masters of the mysteries of three Wijja,— in. whatever manner Mahakassapo 

 and Yasso theVo had held their convocations, on Dhammo and Winayo, pre- 

 cisely in the same manner, holding a convocation, and purifying the whole 

 Sdsanan from all impurity, he performed the third convocation. At the 

 close of the convocation, the earth quaked in various ways. 



This convocation was brought to a close in nine mouths. It is also called 

 the "sahasika" because the convocation was composed of a (sdhdsa) 

 thousand bhikkhus, and on account of two having preceded it, also the ( Tatiya) 



THIRD CONVOCATION. 



II. — Note on the Geography of Cochin China, by the Right Rev. Jean 

 Louis, Bishop of Is auropolis, Vic. Apost. of Cochin China. Hon. 

 Mem. As. Soc. 



[Translated from a memoir kindly communicated by the author f«] 

 Speaking of the geography of Cochin China, M. Malte' Brun, 

 whose works on this subject are in many respects highly valuable, 

 has not feared to advance that our knowledge of this country has 

 become more obscure the more it has been handled by successive 

 writers, who contradict one another. In spite of the respect due to 

 an author of Malte' Brun's celebrity, (who nevertheless is, I believe, 

 only a fireside geographist, — or, which is the same thing, a traveller 



* Signifies "investigated," also " verified. " 



f We must apologize to the author for presenting his contribution in English, 

 a work of no small trouble by the way to an Editor, but the difficulty of printing 

 in French would have much retarded the journal. — Ed. 

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