IIS HISTORY OF CASHMIR. 



syiloiiiiiies Is used by the priests of the Burma Empire Sudhodaiii-cha. 

 {jlotaina, Sdkyasiha, tat'ha, Sakyamuni ch 1 Adichheh 'bandku clia. The Baod- 

 dhas of Ceylon also consider the fifth Buddha whom they name Maitri 

 as yet to come.— As. Res. vii. 32 and 414. 



Sdleya Sinha, as observed, is always identified with Gautama. The con- 

 curring traditions of the Bauddha nations establish the existence of that 

 prince of Magadha in the middle of the sixth century before Christianity, 

 There is little reason therefore to call that fact in question. It is very un- 

 accountable however why Gautama should bear such a synonime as Sdleya 

 Sinha* and no satisfactory explanation of the appellation has yet been trac- 

 ed : it is equally inexplicable also how a prince of central India, should have 

 borne so prominent a share, in the introduction of a religious innovation, the 

 earliest vestiges of which are so clearly referable to the North West of 

 India, to Bactria or even to Tartary. That the Bauddha religion did not 

 originate in Cashmir with Sdleya Sinha is evident from the v. hole course of 

 the history;, and all tradition points to a period long antecedent to his, for 

 the date of the invention and its author. At the same time Kalhana, well 

 informed as he is in these respects, has evidently confounded the two pe- 

 riods, and hence assigned to Sdleya Sinha a date corresponding to at least 

 1332 B.C. although apparently designating the person who flourished B. C. 

 542. We may therefore venture to correct his chronology with reference 

 to this latter date, although until we can be satisfied that the Sdleya Sinha 

 of the North West was one individual with the Gautama of Magadha, we 

 cannot venture to attach any thing like certainty to this emendation. Some 



* According to the Burmdh Bauddhas Sdlvja is the family name of Gautama's ancestry. In 

 the Parajika Attka Kathais a very curious account of the four Sanyayanas or Missions, by 

 which the Ba iddha religion was propagated to distant regions. The fourth was of a miscellaneous 

 nature, -and included both Ceylon and Cashmir, about 236 years it is said after the disappearance 

 of Gautama: a Gatha or text is cited on this subject which alludes to some legends, that ap- 

 pear not improbably connected with the statements of oar history. Gantwa KAsroiraGatfdliirain, 

 isi Majjantiho tada ; Duttha nagan pasaditwa modi <fti bandhhani- bahuti. Majjantika then having 

 proceeded to Kashmir and Gandhar, and subdued the evil Serpent genius, liberated numbers from 

 bondage. 



