'tha.totiht'javanefef dihonnd in Smzfcrit terms, wliile in arts and inao 



provement the former are far beneath the lat^r. 



/"^HS firil Indian colony which came to Java is faid to have arri- 

 ••'^ed in the fir ft year of their prefent era, or 1742 years ago. The 

 leader of this adventure was a Brahman of the name of Tritusti. 

 The landing- is faid to have been effe<5i:ed on the fouthcoaO; of the iflaridj 

 aod the fird eftabhfhment to have been Fiiade at the foot of the moun- 

 tain of Sumeru, or Meru, which ftill preferves that name. TRi'tusti' 

 eilablilhed the prefent eraj and he is from thence more commonly 

 known by the title of Aji SaIca, or the founder of the era. Accounts 

 are not agreed -refpeding the number of this firft colony; bat no 

 ftatemeni, which I have heard is fo exaggerated, as not to be recon- 

 cilable to probabilityj the higheft making it to amount to no more 

 ■than 190 families. 



■ It is an important and interefting faQ: refped^ing: this emigration 

 that the perfons of whom it coniifled, were not all male adventurers ; 

 but that women and children were of the number. The con fort of 

 ihe leader, and his two fons are exprefsly mentioned by name, the 

 former called Brahmani Keli^ and the latter Manuman-ga a^d Manu- 

 ma,.I)ewa<, 



.What over-ruling caufe could -induce a colony of Hindus to at- 

 tempt (to them) a diitant and dangerous voyage, and with their wives 

 and families^ to feek a refuge in an unknown country, fee ms at fir (I 

 aqueftion of diflScuIty. Seeking a caufe of fufficient magnitude for 

 fuch an effect, and comparing the date of the emigration ufually 

 afligned to the perfecution of the Buddhists, and their expulfion from 

 weftern India by the fuperior influence of the -B/:^/^w^/ij* ; I am in- 



Is not the term " leliginn of ihe Brah.mam'-' oppofcd (o that of the" religion of Buddha," at leaft a very 

 dubious expreflion ? Are there wot B;-a/;«aw of both perfuajlonE? On BcU, as I iiave already Ilatedj tbc 

 ^MQii Br^ibma/t is applieable alike I04he pjiefts of boi-h feftB. 



