HISTORY OF CASHM1H. Ill 



the final Nirvritti or emancipation of their Buddhas or Saints in its fullest 

 sense. Pari being- added as an intensitive prefix. The use cf this and seme 

 other peculiar expressions, which are at present quite unintelligible to the 

 ablest scholars among the Brahmans of Hindostan, but are familiar to the 

 Rahans of the Burman empire, proves that Calhana the author of the Cash- 

 mirian history, or at least his guides, were well acquainted with the lan- 

 guage, and probably, with the system, of the Bauddhas. 



"They (Hushca, &c.) of Turushca descent, were Princes, asylums of vir- 

 tue, and they founded Colleges, and planted sacred trees, in Sushca and other 

 places. During the period of their reign the whole of Cashmir was the 

 enjoyment of Bauddhas, eminent for austerity. After them, when 150 years 

 had elapsed from the emancipation of the Lord Sacya Sinha in this es- 

 sence of the world, a Bodhisatwa in this country named Nagarjuna, was 

 Bhumiswara (Lord of the earth), and he was the asylum of the six Arhatwas." 



As the prevalence of the Bauddhas and consequence of Nagarjuna, if 

 not subverted, were at least checked in the ensuing reign of Abhimanyu, and 

 as the passage expressly states that the circumstance occurred after the Tu- 

 rushka princes, the 150 years subsequent to Sdkya Sinha must fall within the 

 limits of Abhimanyu s reign : it is therefore necessary only to fix the date of 

 Sdkya Sinha to determine that of the several reigns occurring in this por- 

 tion of our history. 



In a late work, Hamilton's Nepal, it is asserted on the authority of local 

 tradition, that " Sacya Sinha, the well-known apostle of the nations still 

 attached to the Buddha faith, existed about the beginning of the Christian 

 sera, he being considered the Jifth Buddha Legislator, and distinct from 

 Gautama, who lived in the sixth century before it." Whatever may be 

 the accuracy of this opinion, it may be safely asserted, that it is diametri- 

 cally opposed to the notions prevalent in all other regions, Brahmanical 

 ©r Bauddha. In the lexicons of Amera and Hemachandra, Sdcya Sinha 

 occurs as a synonime of Gautama, Saudodhani, and Mayddevisuta or Gau- 

 tama, the eon of SudkodhamjpaA of Mayddevi. A similar string of Pali 



