1850.] 



of Continental India, 8fc. 



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ed the Javan era, in consequence of which he is considered to be the 

 same with Aji-saka.* Raffles notices an' in- 



* P. 70 



ference that the colonists who arrived in the 

 three first centuries are supposed to have been Baudd'hists, and 

 those who came about the close of the' fifth 



* P. 71. 



century * were of the Brahmanical creed. The 

 real fact may be vice versa. 



There is yet another account which more specifically points to 

 9 ^ Guzerat* as the country whence a large colo- 



ny proceeded to Java ; and this colony is said 

 to have united with a former one from the Hastinapuri kingdom, 

 and to have become one people, under the chief that headed the last 



expedition : an event fixed* A. J. 525 A. D. 



* P. 83. n , 



603-4. 



It is remarked by Raffles that each one of these three accounts 

 may contain some* true particulars, leaving 



* P. 85. 



much still vague and uncertain. He thinks 

 that the building of the great temples at Brambanam may be fixed 

 in the sixth or seventh centuries* a medium 



* P. 86 and note. 



between different accounts ; and notices tra- 

 ditions of a great increase of idol worshippers with idols, hierophants, 

 and others, who arrived in Java, and penetrated to the eastern 

 islands, even to Japan ; proved by a quotation from Kempfer's His- 

 tory, and further traces the subject to Mexico, on an indication 

 given by Humboldt. I must note, by the way, that he has at various 

 times thrown in coincidences between Javanese and Mexican sub- 

 jects, which appear to be more than casual ; especially the week of 

 five days, in addition to the usual one of seven. Humboldt asks 

 " where is the source of that cultivation ? where is the country from 

 which the Toultecs and Mexicans issued ?" I cannot reply ; but I ex- 

 pect to throw the light of some probabilities over the general sur- 

 face of the question, before I have done. 



In the Javan year 846 the remarkable circumstance is noted to 

 have occurred of the Dewa Kasuna, the king of Java, sending four 

 sons and a daughter to Kling (India) to be educated and instructed 

 in the Hindu religion ; whence they are said to have returned in 

 three large ships, with presents, artists, and a thousand troops. 

 Raffles supposes that this account may veil a foreign successful in- 



