IS2 



The Antiquities of the 



[No. 



Thautawar Words with Words of Western Languages. 



C Edra, (milking time in Cel- 

 Err, (buffaloe) \ ^j^^^ 



Trooda, (eldest brother) Brooder, (Gothic.) 



Phin, (chatty or pot) Pan (English.) 



(a mund, (the place \ ^ ^ . 



of God,) J Got or God. 



On, (1) One. 



Adjou, You. 



Ther, (God) Thor, (Gothic.) 



Ait, (eight) Eight. 



Unnoo, Hundred. 



g The Gothic week consists of 



Aitnor, (aweekofSdays,) ^ | eight days. 



Buddovum, (Wednesday) AVodensday. 

 Tor — 1 (mountain) Tor. 



I have dismissed the idea of the ancestors of the Thautawars being 

 unacquainted with the Buddha of Central Asia, on the ground that 

 Hindooism (properly so called) is more ancient than Buddhism, Fu- 

 ture discoveries may however prove that one is as old as the other. 

 One of the analogues of Buddha is Toth of the Egyptians, the Mer- 

 cury of the Greeks, but who really was Athothes the son of Menes by 

 whom the Egyptian monarchy was founded 2188 years before Christ. 

 And it derives great support from the statues of Buddha, which are 

 precisely those of Memnon in Egypt, having the African features and 

 woolly hair of some of the ancient Egyptians. Moreover the name 

 of Buddha in Siam is Pout, the same, I have no doubt, with Phut of 

 Scripture, the brother of Menes or Misraim of Egypt, the son of 

 Ham. If we correct the old Egyptian Chronicle by the Book of 

 Moses, and substitute the word brother for sow, we arrive at the con- 

 clusion that, 



Buddha or Phout is Phut, who is Toth, who is Athothes, who 

 reigned in Egypt 2000 years before Christ. 



Sir William Jones conceives Buddha lived 1027 years before 

 Christ ; Abul Fazl 1366 ; while other accounts speak of a second 

 Buddha who appeared in the sixth century before Christ, and was 

 probably the individual venerated by the Goths as Woden. 



That the Buddhists' conceptions of the names of their forefathers 

 are a.s accurate as that of the Hindus will be obvious, in the following 



