BAUDDHA TRACTS FROM NEPAL, 



REMARKS. 



The enumeration given in these verses is, therefore, very difFerent from 

 that of Dr. Buchanan and Capt. Mahony, and instead of five or six we have 

 eight deified Buddha teachers or human Buddhas : the former writer has only 

 specified two names, Gautama and Sakya, of which the first does not occur 

 in the Nepal list, whilst in another place he observes that Sakya is considered, 

 by the Burmese Bauddhists, as an impostor : the latter has mentioned the 

 names of the Buddhas, and they are evidently the same as the last five of the 

 Nepal Stotra. 



Kakoosondeh, or Krakuchhanda, 



KONAGAMMEH, „ KaNAKA, 



Kaserjeppeh, „ Kasyapa, 



GoTTAMA, „ Sakya, 



Maitree, „ Maitreya, 



possibly the other three are regarded as Buddhas of a different Kalpa, or period, 

 and therefore only were omitted in the list furnished to Captain Mahony, 

 (Asiatic Research. VII. 32.) : the Nepal enumeration, however, is not a mere 

 provincial peculiarity, nor of very modern date, and the same must have pre- 

 vailed in Hindustan, when there were Buddhas in the country. Hemachandra, 

 who wrote his vocabulary, probably in Guzeraty in the 12th century, specifies 

 the same Buddhas as the Sapta Buddha Stotra, or Vipasiji, Silchiy Fiswabhu, 

 Krakuchha?ida, Kdnchana, Kasyapa^ and Sakya Sinha. 



How many of these Buddhas are real personages, is very questionable. 

 Kasyapa is a character known to the orthodox system, and perhaps had once 

 existence : he seems to have been the chief instrument in extending civilisation 

 along the Himalaya and Caucasian mountains, as far as we may judge from the 

 traditions of Nepal and Cashmir, and the many traces of his name to be met 



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