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5. Sahassa Netto. When he had become perfect master of one 

 thousand Pali works. 



6. Suchampati. When he was married to Suchida Nari. 



7. Dewanna Mintho. When having finished his actively virtuous 

 life on earth, he ascended to Tawatinsanang, and became the ruler of all 

 the Devatas in that heavenly region. 



His Consorts were : — 



1. Suchita — celebrated for the gardens she formed. She made 

 one Nandawana 500 yojanas square. 



2. Sanantha, — famous for the wells and tanks dug by her orders. 



3. Suthamma, — who erected Caravanserais and other buildings for 

 travellers, and also affixed spires to Dagobas, these first being five long 

 cubits in length (or height 30 feet.) 



4. Suchada, — renowned for her virtue. 



Indra is also called Sako — Purindado- — Dewa Raja. 



Wajira Pani — Sujanpati. 



Sahassako — Mahindo. 



Wajirawudho — Wasawo . 



Dassasatta Naiyano — Tiduwadibhii — Suranatho — Wajirahatho , 



Bhutapati — Maghawa. 



Kosiyo — Indo — Wassaghu. 



Pakasassano. 

 " The native country of Buddhism is India — and as there was no 

 other religion but brahmanism, this must have been its parent." 



If this shall be proved it will not perhaps be difficult to shew what 

 that form of brahmanism was to which it owes its existence. As I 

 have not met with the proof of this position I beg to suspend my 

 own judgment. But it is my steady opinion that the worship of a man, 

 which is the coping-stone of the present Buddhist system, as it could 

 not have been derived from the brahmans under any view of the 

 subject, had either very long indigenously prevailed in India, or had 

 been brought from the west, some time prior to its being generally 

 adopted, I apprehend that both religions were originally based on 

 the deep abstraction of infinite power, and illimitable intelligence. But 

 we have not sufficient means for tracing the changes which the Indian 

 mind underwent from the period of the 1st Indian Buddha, perhaps three 

 or four thousand years ago, up to the 4th Buddha, or how many theolo- 



