HO HISTORY OF CASHMIXt. 



No. VIL 



Of the Bauddha Religion in Cashmir. 



The passage in the text adverted to, page 23, requires a little considera- 

 tion, both as to its meaning, and the chronological views to which it has 

 already given rise. The text of the original runs thus : 



There are in this passage some obvious inaccuracies, and some com- 

 pounds of a purport absolutely unknown to the most learned Brahmans. 

 Taking it as it stood, it appeared to involve the position that the Turnshka 

 princes preceded Sakya Sinha by above a century and a half, and conclud- 

 ing the Gautama of the sixth century before the Christian aera to be intended, 

 by the name Sdkya Sinha, which is always enumerated as a synonime, the 

 date of Gonerda the third was adjusted accordingly in the preceding pages 

 and placed 640 B. C. an opportunity having subsequently occurred of con- 

 sulting a Burma priest, and a man of some learning, on the subject, there ap- 

 peared good grounds for revising the passage, and altering the results, in 

 consequence of which several pages previously printed off have been can- 

 celled, and it is only in the marginal dates of the first dynasty that any 

 traces of the error have been suffered to remain. These are of compara- 

 tive unimportance, and will be readily rectified by adverting to the table. 

 We have now then to offer a translation of the passage, premising that 

 the term Puranirvrite should be Parinirvrite, the sixth case of PaHnirvriti 

 or in Pali, Parinibbuti, the ordinary term used by the Bauddhas, to express 



