mi 



steadily for some iiiomeuts ; after which, the 

 mm^, extending its Hue forked tongue, and 

 ihne& hmth^ its hmit lapped m^fem^ ihn 

 lenf ill wliich it had been reserved for the rajah's 

 ]>;ntic'iilar Haviiip; thrice repeated the 



draught, the animal, stiil keeping its eyes fixed 

 OR. die rajah, graduallj retired to the jungle. 

 This c^ii'vieaMiteelf BuHi^wi favour. 



Ag'ain the prince felt his eyelids grow weary ; 

 but, in liis then state of disease, he had deter- 

 mined to oceupv IK) [)!ace of shelter save that 

 which tlie shady Bogaha, {Ficus reliyiosa^) the 

 tree under "^i^li \t repos^, ail(^Eded hSM. I^o 

 $ooitet^ had sle^ a socond time ex^ed its magic 

 influence, than his former vision recurred, with 

 the additional apitearanee of an aged nniii, whose 

 face bore the appearance of the moon in all its 



splendour. % ivnt 3iMm Mem ^ 

 the god Budh0![^» t who stood before the astounded 

 rajah, and thus accosted him : — 



From ignorance of the saeredness of tlie 

 ground over which the god's favourite tree casts 



* Supposed to be derived from a Tamul word, hofifii, 

 i/fhvsh signiiies wisdom* The present object of Singalese 

 worstilp is the fourth Budhtto^ ctlted Gott^nna Btldha Arka- 

 bandoot or desccnclmit from tlic suiu 



t Csmaidercd by many learned Indians au incarnation of 

 l^tittf md Ilk religion to bet founded on that of Brahma. 



