98 Narrative of a Journey to Clio Lagan, fyc. [July, 



In the various accounts above given in the text of the erecting of 

 Chaittyas we cannot fail to remark the care taken on every occasion to 

 record religious events on stone or metal, and these accounts would have 

 bean some proof of this custom even if we had not known of the nume- 

 rous Buddhist inscriptions, which are extant, especially those of the 

 very Prince last named, Asoka [unless there were two of that name] 

 which have of late years been brought to light by our indefatigable 

 orientalists in India. 



" After a while Phra P'hutthi Monthean, a holy priest of Buddha, 

 arrived from Lanka in a vessel bringing with him a pipal tree, which he 

 privately planted unknown to anybody. Another personage after this 

 sailed to the Golden Sands, but was wrecked there and lost most of his 

 effects. But he built a Chaittya and a Vihan before he departed.'* 

 [The Siamese call him Nai song chom.] 



Narrative of a Journey to Cho Lagan (Rdkas Tal), Cho Mapan 

 (Mdnasarowar), and the valley of Pruang in Gnari, Hundes, in 

 September and October 1846. By Henry Strachey, Lieut. 60tk 

 Regt. Bengal N. I. 



Askot — 10th September 1846. — At this place I met two fakirs 

 late from Manasarowar. No. 1, a surkhi-colored Sunydsi, deponeth that 

 walking over Lipu-Dhura into Taklakot, he was forthwith appre- 

 hended, abused, beaten, and put in confinement for that night : the 

 next morning he was brought up and scrutinized before the Sirdar of 

 the place, who at last allowed him to proceed on his pilgrimage, but 

 under the surveillance of a Hunia* who accompanied him to the lake, 

 whence he was marched straight back again after performing his ablu- 

 tions, permission to make the Par karma (religious circuit), or to go 

 on to Kailas, being steadily refused. The Sunyasi was rather an intelli- 

 gent, smart and decent looking person ; which qualities, I presume, ren- 

 dered him the more obnoxious to the " suspicion of being suspect- 

 ed" for a Sikh or Feringi spy ; he was also guilty of a fine black beard 

 —a distinctive mark of the " out-side Barbarian," which the Hunias of 

 Gnari have held in great fear and aversion ever since the invasion of 

 * An inhabitant of Hundes. 



