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from other sources, I am induced to think the first Jains had 

 been Buddhists who, yielding to the force of prejudice and 

 persecution, were compelled to graft upon the original form 

 of their religion, some forms of the Hindu worship, in order 

 to save themselves from utter extermination. The name 

 bestowed upon Jaina in this pagoda, viz., Adi-Isvaren, con- 

 tains one of the names of Siva. 



Palipollium. — Near the bungalow is a singular upright stone 

 eighteen feet high. Mr. Oliver in his " History of Initiation" 

 says : " The Druids did not worship idols in the human shape, 

 because they held that the divinity being invisible, ought to 

 be adored without being seen. But we are told that they 

 did occasionally erect, like the primitive Buddhists of the 

 east, in retired places, statues of Isis or Ceridwen which must 

 have been gigantic stones, rough as when taken from the 

 quarry, the Betula of the Eastern nations, which were ritually 

 consecrated, and invested with peculiar and distinctive proper- 

 ties." Two miles further on in a field on the right hand 

 side of the road I found a closed cromlech f and five cairns. 

 The cairns were similar to some I found on the Nilgiris 

 consisting of upright slabs placed in a circle round a large 

 one lying on the ground. The upright stone, and the last 

 mentioned antiquities are clearly of the same origin, and 

 satisfy me I have not been in error in ascribing the earliest 

 cairns of the Nilgiris, and the cromlechs there to the 

 same founders. The present are some of the most palpable 

 evidences of the former existence of Scythicism or Druidism 

 I have seen in this country. The subjoined extract from 

 " Notes on the Antiquities of Macclesfield," by J. Finney 

 opportunely put in my hands, while engaged on this part 

 of my manuscript, is a striking corroboration of my opinion 

 regarding the Druidical origin of the cairns, and upright 



t The closed cromlech seems to be the original of the altar tombs in our 

 churchyards. 



