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of cross-ferfcilisAtion in orchids has been in danger of being 

 unduly magmfled^ from the absence of evidence on the other 

 side. 



The estate of Kosala derives its name from the rounded hill ^ 

 above the house. The word is of Sanscrit origin, but its 

 ni«uiirig is unknown. It is a couiitry along the bmk of the 

 8aniyn, farming a part of t\ie modern proTince of Oiide. It 

 was the pristine kingdom of a solar race, and in the time of 

 liuddha its principal city was Sewet (Sravasti). There is 

 another Kosala in the Deccan (Bakshina Kosala) ; so Kosala 

 or Eusala is the name of a land or a race. Ala occurs as a 

 termination in many names of countries, but the root EosJi or 

 Kiith has such an immense variety of siguttications that it is 

 impossible to find a good traib^lation for it. 



The city of Sewet in Kosala was visited in a.d. 401 by 

 the Chinese Buddliist pilgrim Fah-hian, and where he saw 

 the famous sandal-wood figure made by order of the king of 

 Kosala. Ho found at some distance from the city a copse 

 called Aptauetravaua ("recovered sight"), where originally 

 live hundred blind men lived who were restored to sight by 

 Huddha. The blind men threw their staves on the ground, 

 nhich forthwith gi-ew up into trees and formed a sacred 

 grove or copse. The name has most prolmbly come down 

 from Hindoo times to the present associated with some 

 sjicred legend whose influence hovers still over the spot; 

 i\yT when the coffee gardens were being made the natives 

 refused to fell tiie forest that grew on the Kosala hill, 

 and only under compulsion could they then be persuaded to 

 enter it 



Under its shade there stand several mounds, blocks, and slabs 

 which Afr. Lash conducte<l me one day to see. On entering 

 the forest we were somewhat surprised to find a portion of the 

 ground newly cleared of underwood from about several of the \. 

 stones, and against them standing the remnants of small 

 torches of sweet gums which had been offeretl before them. I 

 felt certain that this was the work of none of the surrounding 

 people who were afraid to enter the copse. 



1 decided therefore to make a full survey of the buried 

 ruins, and after some difficulty I succeeded in securing, for a 

 consideration, the services of a youth who was willing to 



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