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it is admitted, that other animated creatures thaa man and animals exist. It 

 has already been observed, that nothing analogous to the Metaphysical, or 

 Dhydni Buddhas occurs in the Buddhism of Southern India. 



There is, however, some evidence to shew, that the whole of the Nepal 

 hierarchy of heaven, even of the Swabhdvika class, is not confined to the 

 nations of the North. In the vocabulary of Hemachandra, we have the 

 names of sixteen goddesses, at a little distance from the synonimes of the 

 Buddhas, entitled the Vidyadevis, who are unknown to the Brahmanical sys- 

 tem. One of these is Prajncipti, who may be the same as the Prajnd of our 

 text. It is however, in the vocabulary, entitled the Trtkdnda Sesha, that the 

 fullest confirmation occurs, that many of the inferior personages belonging to 

 the Bauddhas were known in India, when that faith was current there. Be- 

 sides the names of Sakya and those of general or individual Buddhas, as 

 SwAYAMBHU, Padmapani, Lokakath, Lokesa, Vitiraga, Avalokita, and 

 Manjusri, that work specifies a variety of goddesses, whose titles are found in 

 the text as Tdrd, Vasudhard, Dhanadd or Sampatpradd, Mdrichi, Lochand, and 

 others. The vocabulary is Sanscrit, and is apparently a compilation of the 

 tenth or eleventh century.* 



The allusions in the twenty-fourth and other verses to Manju Nath seem 

 to point to him as the first teacher of the Bauddha religion in Nepal. Tradi- 

 tion assigns to him the same part that was performed by Kasyapa in Kashmir,t 

 the recovery of the country from the waters by which it was submerged, by 

 giving them an outlet through the mountains: this he performed, according to 

 the text, by cutting a passage with his scymitar. He is described in the 

 same stanza, as coming from Sirsha, which the Newari comment says is the 



* Introduction to Wilson's Dictionary p. xxvii. f As. Res. vol. xv. 



