1850.] 



of Continental India, 8fc. 



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4 for the heighth of the Bauddha persecution' (that is persecution of 

 Bauddhas by Brahmans, &c.) e agrees, in a very remarkable manner, 



* with the date of events, recorded in the countries, where the faith 

 ' of Buddha now predominates, and which were intimately connect- 

 4 ed with the condition of his Indian votaries in their native realms, 



* It was early in the sixth century (A. D. 519*) that China received 

 4 from India the prophet Dftarma, who gave a new impulse to the 



* worship of Buddha then languishing in that country, and fixed it as 

 4 the national faith. In 530 the religion of Buddha was introduced 



* into Corea ; in 540-50 into Japan, and the year 572 was remarka- 

 1 able for the arrival in that kingdom of an immense number of 

 4 priests and idols, who came from countries beyond the sea : we 

 4 may conclude this branch of our inquiry by citing the opinion of 



* the late historian of Java, Sir Thomas RafrleS; that the Bauddha 

 4 religion was introduced into that island during the sixth and 

 4 seventh centuries, and that the same period was remarkable for the 



* arrival of numerous Hindu emigrants on Java, and the eastern 

 ' islands.'f 



In a Manuscript]: of the Mackenzie Collection entitled Conc/u-desa- 

 rajakal, the following passage occurs. The period is the reign of 

 JUari vari deva, a Chola raja, conqueror of the Pandiya kingdom ; 

 whence he derived the title of king of kings. The Saca year is not 

 given ; but by evidence deduced from the latest preceding date in 

 the M.S. it must have been about the Saca year 900, or within the 

 thousandth year of the Christian era. 



4 Afterwards that king's general being a very near relation, he 

 4 himself came to the house of the latter, who being greatly delight- 

 4 ed thereby, performed the Kanaka-abishegam (or pouring gold 

 4 over the head, &c.) The king being rejoiced commissioned him 

 ' to go and conquer the adjoining countries- That Amarbhnjangam, 



j 4 the general, set out, with the four kinds of forces, towards the 

 4 west, to the mountain named Saiya, and thence proceeding to fight 



; 1 against the Kerala-desa he heard that its king was performing the 



* Kcempfer'a Japan B. 2, ch. 4. t Hist, of Java II. 86. 



t The present paper was in the hands of the Editors of the Journal, before my trans- 

 lation of the Manuscript quoted from j though that translation happened to be printed 

 first in order. See No- 32, Art, I. 



