1847.] " Neilgherry Hills, 8fc. 



Ill 



opinion deriving considerable support from an old book entitled 

 " The Welsh Triads," containing an account of the ancient Britons. 

 In this curious literary relic it is stated that the Britons came origi- 

 nally from the country of Summer called Defrobani. The word 

 Defrobani is obviously the same with Taprobana, the old name of 

 Ceylon used by Dioderus, Pomponius Mela, Pliny, Strabo, Pto- 

 lemy, &c. 



The Llamas of the Tibetian Buddhists were interred without being 

 burnt as were the rest of the people, the body being placed in a 

 sitting posture, the legs doubled under it in such a manner as to 

 make the back of the thigh rest on the calf. Skeletons in the same 

 attitude have been discovered in some of the Celtic barrows in 

 Europe. 



Discerning so many points of resemblance common to the religion 

 and customs of the Buddhist invaders, and to their ancestors and 

 themselves the contemporary Thautawars, I may fairly conclude, 

 were the more disposed to imitate the style employed by the Panda- 

 vers in fashioning their burial urns. Nay more, in the Buddha of 

 these people the Thautawars would find the Scythian god Wod, , 

 Oden, or Woden ; for Sir William Jones has demonstrated that they 

 are the same. 



In describing some antiquities found in a cairn of the second 

 period at Coonoor, I remarked upon the resemblance an^armed figure 

 in pottery bore to Woden. 



In a fragment of Clitarchus preserved by Megasthenes I find 

 mention of a sect of Indians called Pramnoe described therein as 

 ** a contentious and argumentative set of men, who deride the Brah- 

 " mins as arrogant and ridiculous." These Pramnoe were divided 

 into four classes, the Mountaineers, the Naked, the Citizens, and the 

 Rural. I cannot doubt that these were the Buddhists, and the 

 fragment is of service to me as it shows that a large proportion of 

 these people inhabited mountains. 



I have recently seen Lieutenant Newbold's description of the 

 colossal statue of Gotama at Sravana Belgula, which runs thus : " It 

 " is entirely divested of drapery in an erect position, facing the 

 ** North, and has the curly hair, large pendulous ears, and thick lips 

 .** so peculiar to Jaina images ; the placid expression of the features 

 " reminds one of the head of Memnon : the legs are wreathed with 

 *' Ruttimulli leaves sculptured in the granite and together with the 

 " hands are clumsily executed." 



