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The Antiquities of the 



[No. S2, 



So exact an account of a figure in potteiy excavated by me from a 

 cairn, is the above, that I am persuaded the prototype of it must 

 have been Gotama or Buddha. I was immediately struck on seeing 

 it with its resemblance to the heads of Memnon in the British 

 Museum. 



This custom of making images in earthenware is of the highest 

 antiquity if we may rely upon the subjoined extract from Epi- 

 phanius : 



And from the times of Tharra the father of Abraham, they in- 

 *' troduced images and all the errors of idolatry ; honoring their 

 *' forefathers, and their departed predecessors with effigies which 



they fashioned after their likeness. They first made these efiigies 

 '* of earthenware, but afterwards according to their diflferent arts they 

 " sculptured them in stone, and cast them in silver and gold, and 

 " wrought them in wood, and all kinds of different materials." 



With reference to a preceding statement respecting the identity 

 of Woden with Budden, it is worthy of remark that our Wednesday 

 or day of Woden corresponds with the Budhvar of the Hindi and the 

 Budden or Bothenculloomay, i. e. the day of Budden, among the 

 Hindoos. 



Chapter 10th. 



Let us now enter the sacred lactarium or temple of the Thauta- 

 wars, and observe what is inside to indicate that the votaries of its 

 religion were Scythicists. It will perhaps be better to select another 

 author's account to be as impartial as possible. Captain Harkness 

 states he was told by a ThautaAvar " that the sacred dairy before men- 

 *' tioned was the tabernacle of their god; that it was divided into 

 " two apartments, in one of which were performed the offices of the 

 *' dairy, and that the other was appropriated solely to the idol." At 

 a later period Hhat gentleman penetrated into one of these sacred 

 edifices unobserved by the Thautawars who were averse to any 

 stranger even a Brahmin entering the place. He contrived to remove 

 the door and discovered that the interior of the building was sepa- 

 rated by a partition into two chambers. Passing from the outer or 

 the lactarium, through a narrow opening in the partition, he discern- 

 ed at the extremity of the inner room or cella a shining object oppo- 

 site the entrance, which on being examined proved to be a sivgle 

 stone. On each side of the entrance to this sanctuary ^were little 

 niches in the wall, apparently intended for lamps. 



