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Religion of the Ceylonese^ 
doiij ill a sitting posture, and surrounded by alligators, tygers, 
elephants, dragons, and a number of fabulous monsters. These 
figures however have no reference to the worship of Buddou, 
but belong properly to the Hindoo goddess Yishna, who is 
here placed as an attendant deity in his temple. She is drawn 
with a rice-pot in her hand, and is accounted much inferior 
in rank to Buddou. 
Buddou is always represented with thick, black, frizzled hair 
like an African negro; but the Ceylonese will not allow that 
this alludes to his ever having been in Africa, and they can- 
not hear the resemblance mentioned without a decree of horror. 
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The priests say that Buddou was born in Muggud Deish, (Ba- 
har,) that he was son to Sudonah Rajah, and that his hair 
having on a certain occasion been cut off with a golden sword, 
it has on this account been ever afterwards depicted short and 
curled. 
Colonel Robertson of the Alalay regiment brought home, in 
1803, an image of Buddou, found in the palace of Candy when 
taken by general Ylacdoual in February of the same year. By 
the favour of colonel Robertson, the figure exhibited in the 
frontispiece has been taken from it. This image is about fifteen 
inches in height, and weighs about twelve pounds. It is cut 
out of an elephant’s tooth. 
In Biligamme Code is an immense figure of a man six yards 
high. The Ceylonese repair in numbers to worship at this 
place. This immense statue stands about ten miles north from 
Matura, near the road which passes Biligamme. It is said to re- 
present the Cottah Raja, an ancient prince who taught them the 
planting and use of the cocoa-nut, and instructed them in its va- 
rious salutary qualities. The Gonies of Ceylon describe him in 
