from the Ancient Books. of th.e Hindus. 417 



but fuppofe, that the founder of their feci: was Buddha, the ninth avatar, 

 who, in the Agnipurdn, has the epithet of Sacripa, or Benevolent, and, in 

 the Gitagovinda, that of Sadaya-bridaya, or Tender-hearted : it is added by 

 Jayade'va, that tt he cenfured the whole Veda, becaufe it prefcribed 

 " the immolation of cattle." This alone, we fee, has not deftroyed their ve- 

 neration for him ; but they contend that atheiflical dogmas have been propa- 

 gated by modern Bauddhas, who were either his difciples, or thofe of a 

 younger Buddha, or fo named fromibuddbi, becaufe they admit no fupreme 

 divinity, but intellect : they add, that even the old Jamas, or J 'ay 'anas, ac- 

 knowledged no Gods but Jya", or Earth, and Vishnu, or Water j as De-? 

 riades (perhaps Duryo'dhan) is introduced by Nonnus boafting, that 

 Water and Earth were his bnlyrdeities, and reviling his adverfaries for enter- 

 taining a different opinion [a) ; fo that the Indian war, defcribed in the I)w- 

 nyfiacks, arofe probably from a religious quarrel. Either the old Bauddbas 

 were the fame with the Cutila-cefas, or nearly allied to them, j and we may 

 fufpedt fome affinity between them and the Balis', becaufe the facred language 

 of Siam, in which the laws of .the Bauddhas mq compofed, is properly named 

 Bali-, but a complete account of Buddha will then only be given, when 

 fome ftudious man mall colledl all that relates to him in the Sanfcrit books, 

 particularly in the VSyu-purdn, and mail compare his authorities with the 

 teftimonies, drawn from other fources by KLempfer, Giqrgi, Tachard, 

 De La Loubere, and by fuch as have accefs to the literature of China, Siam, 

 and Japan. 



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(a) Dionyfiac. B. 21. v. 247. 'Sea. 259 &c. ' 



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