S On the Code and Historical MSS. of the Siamese, [July 



Sripadi, or Adam's Peak. Siam exhibits the traces of the right foot 

 on the top of the golden mountain Siva~na-bapato. Other traces of the 

 sacred steps, are sparingly scattered over Pegu, Ava, and Arracan : 

 but it is among the Laos, that all the vestiges of the founders of this 

 religion seem to be concentered— and whither devotees repair to wor- 

 ship at the traces of the sacred steps of Pra-ku-ku-sdn, Pra-kon-na- 

 kon, Pra-put-l' ha-kat-sop and Pra sa-mut-ta-ko-dom. 



The description of Cambodia by a Chinese traveller, translated by 

 Remusat, mentions the prevalence of three great religious sects there, 

 viz. the Chon-kon, or Buddhists, the Pan-ke, or literary sect, and the 

 Taon-passe. These would appear to correspond with the San-kon or 

 three religions of China, viz. those of Confucius, Buddha, and that of 

 the philosophers or heretics, as the disciples of Laon-keun are styled. 



The city of Saigon in Cambodia, we are told by Lieut. White, of 

 the American Navy, in his account of Cambodia, is crowded with 

 temples dedicated to Buddha similar to the Chinese pagodas. 



China. Sir Wffi, Jones, in his seventh discourse, on the Chinese, states 

 his opinion that the religion of Buddha or Fo* was introduced into 

 China from India in the first century of our era. Major Wilford with 

 more minuteness fixes the date cf its introduction in the year 65 A. C. 

 This he does on the authority of Pliny, which amounts merely to the 

 report of one of the four Cingalese ambassadors to the emperor 

 Claudius, who began his reign in 44 A.D., that the Seres. (Chinese ?) liv- 

 ed beyond the Haimada or snowy mountains, and that they were often 

 seen and visited by the Cingalese through commercial intercourse, and 

 that whenever caravans from Ceylon went there, the Seres came in 

 a friendly manner part of the way to meet them. Major Wilford 

 thinks that there can be no doubt that the Cingalese went first by sea 

 to the country of Mogadha or the Gangetic provinces : where their 

 legislator Buddha was born, and his religion flourished Li the utmost 

 splendour ; and thence, with the caravans of that country, to China, 

 through the great route mentioned by Ptolemy from Palibothra* M. 

 De Giugnes and others prove the subsequent intercourse prevailing 

 between India and China. 



As doubts have arisen, notwithstanding the authorities just adduced, 

 regarding the introduction of Buddhism into China from India, we 

 will hear what the Chinese themselves say on the subject. They con- 

 stantly aver that Froh or Buddha came from the west. In the west 

 they place his paradise. fThe emperor Chivg-Tih, who died A. D. 

 1520, meditated sending an ambassador with expensive presents to 



* Mr. De Giugnes asserts on the authority of four Chinese historians that Fo was born 

 1027 years before Christ. 

 + Indo-Chinese Gleaner to! I. page 150. 



