•IN -THE ISL'l-ND O'F' BAU« 45§ 



cllne^ t© think tliat the emigrants who fcook refuge on Java^ coRfiitU" 

 ted a branch of the general emigration of the followers of BuddhAj 

 who fp read their religion among the population of Ava^Siam, Japan^ 

 China, and other eailerncountries" 



Tradition indeed gives no account of the particular tenets of the 

 -firll adventurers to ^<3?:/5. In the courfe of ages perhaps no great -dif- 

 ierence remained between the two fe6ls, except what was merely 

 dodrind. Under thofe circum fiances, pofterity might forget the par« 

 Cicular tenets of the early colonics, That no hoftility fabfifted be- 

 tween the later times may be Urdngly preftimed. I fhall adduce 'one 

 "iproof oniyo In the great 'Buidhift temple already defcribed in a notCg 

 :there is not a lingle image of che worfhips of Siva or Vishnu* nor even 

 any figure which I could kientify with them ; yet within a mile of it, 

 there are two fmall ones evidently confecrated to the orthodojc reli- 

 gion, as might be feen by their decorations: a fine Ra:tue of Brahma up- 

 wards of feveii feet high was difcovered by us near the imns, ©f 

 one of them. 



The fons of Tritusti and their defcendants, are faid to have fucceed" 

 •ed him in the government of his colony down to the firll century of 

 -the Javanefe era. In the year 417, the principal fovereign of the ifland 

 claimed his defcent from the fir ft adventurer. If therefore Buddhifm 

 was the religion of the firft fettlerSg it i^ probable it was the prevailing 

 one down to that period. 



From the arrival of the firft fettlers down to the year 350, a crowd 

 ofcoloniftsand adventurers continued to come to J^w, from which 

 circumftance the inference Ilhould draw, is that the fame caufe conti» 

 •nued to impel them to emigrate, or in other words, that the perfccu- 

 4ion of the followers of Buddha m India, continued down to this pen- 

 od. The date of the arrival of the principal adventurers is fta-ed 



as follows: 



