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Buddhist who remained in the beauteous gem-set Mandapa, 

 what was his object. 



When these divine men went to the senseless Buddhist, 

 he would not arise to accost them, upon which they felt in- 

 dignant, censured him for it in terms of opprobrium, and 

 interrogated him thus : " O thou who dost not know in what 

 manner to behave thyself! for what reason dost thou sit 

 here with temerity ? " 



He replied, " if you will aver by the Angas ( a), Vedas 

 (b ), Puranas (c) ) and Agamas (d), that your God (Siva) 



(a) Angas (^«^), literally "bodies," a term employed to 

 designate the six systems of Hindu philosophy, an account of 

 which is given by Mr. Colebrooke in the 1st volume of the 

 Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society. 



{b) Vedas (o«/$u>), the Hindu scriptures which are believed 

 to have been originally revealed by Brahma, and afterwards 

 compiled from tradition by Vyasa. They are four in number, 

 called respectively the Rig Yajur Sama («=.itoa>), 



and A thar v ana (^ipa&iaruD.), 



(c) Puranas ( 4 .T(r«wu>), the legendary poems of the Hindus agree- 

 ing in character with the Grecian theogonies. The principal 

 Puranas are eighteen in number, of Avhich the Saiva («>*«itj>), 

 Skanda (&<nspLc\ Linga (fsSU-srus), Kur'mma (ajuild), Vamana 

 (a/ff£jDOTT£j>), Varaha («/inr«u>), Bhavishya (Q^err^*^), Matsya (u>^ 

 g)aju>), Markandya (u>ir<r<s;fS6EBr0t_(uu>), and Brahmanda (i%/jo««jorc_ui), 

 are inscribed to Siva ; the Naradhya (*n<tj$aju>), Bhagavata (ane 

 &>&ld), Garuda («fr<w$<_ix>), and Usishnava («>a/aBr«/u>), to Vishnu ; 

 the. Brahma (Aire* to) and Padma (u#u>u>), to Brahma ; the 

 Brahmavaivarta (iUfru>sa>«o/<r^u>), to Surya ; and the Ag'neya 

 (^«®0/siuld), to Agni. Supplementary to these Puranas, there 

 are eighteen others, which are collectively called Upapuranas 

 (e.uq»ffOTjruO, and individually : Usana (e-#«aru>J, Kapila (ff(Stou>), 

 Kali («<r«fc), Sanatkumvira (a=e«r«p®usir(ru>), Sambhava (^T^ua/Lo), 

 Sivadliarma mu>), Saura (©#«r»rLo), Druasa (^(^a/ffjio), 

 Nandi ; Narasinha Naradhya (Wj*<uu>), Para- 

 sara (ua^-tuj), Bharghava (u.ff«e«/u>), Angira'(^««Tu>), Mari- 

 chi (uxrff»uj), Manava (amau)), Vashistalingha (a/$t_t_«8«*u>), 

 and Varuna (j&mq^emu^, 



(d) Agamas (^*u»u>), literally "books;" but they are com- 

 monlv understood to mean those books, which contain the canons 



