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every Manucliaitya^* or highest order of temples in Nepal: and that thos(i 

 images are invariably distinguished by the respective differences exhibited 

 in the specimens transmitted. 



The following list of JBuddhas compleats all I have at present to offer on 

 the subject. Two lists were prepared for me, some time ago, by an old Saud- 

 dha of Nepal, with whom I have long cultivated an acquaintance ; but were 

 then laid aside for future examination and explanation where opportunity 

 should serve. 



I have accordingly had them compared, under my own eyes, with the 

 scriptures, whence they were extracted, and that comparison has suggested 

 the following brief elucidatory remarks. In the first place, the lesser list 

 has proved to be superfluous, all its names being contained in the laro-er one* 

 In the next place, the whole number of Buddhas in the greater catalogue has 

 been found to amount to one hundred and thirty-one and not to one hundred 

 and forty-five, as stated elsewhere ; the same name being repeated, in some 

 instances, two and three times, by reason of this catalogue consisting of liter- 

 al extracts from several independent works. And I have thought it better 

 to leave it in statu quo, than to omit sundry names of one series because they 

 occur in another. Such omission might have interfered with some established 

 contiguity, time, place, or circumstances, in regard to the Buddhas^ with 

 which we are not acquainted j and with respect to the repetitions, these 

 may be seen, in the list, at a glance, by the references attached to 

 them. There is one deviation from the catalogues as found in the 

 pothis whence they are drawn, and it is this. After the names of the 



* Chaitya, is the proper and sole name for a Bauddha abode of God. Vihdr, the proper and 

 sole name of ^ Bauddha abode of the servant of God. In the former dwells the object of worship, 

 in the latter the professed. 



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