498 Similarity of the ancient Trish and Hindu M rythology. [June 1, 
aster) whose name in Persian implies, 
guid or silver-handed.  _ 
2. Lugh, Lu-lamh-fada ; i.e. Lu, the tall 
Lama or priest. The office of Lama was 
common to all the Southern Scythians : 
it is now written Jwamh, and translatea 
abbot, by the lish lexiconists—More 
Tibetanorum Lou est Lo, presbyter, 
sacerdos, princeps, summus. Lamam ita 
habeas supremum Chatave. Lama Reim- 
boiche, Tibetanorum pontifex maximus. 
(Georgius Alpab. Tibet. p. 689.) 
3. Eo cad, ill dathac, Dia Teidith, 
#.e. Penis sanctus variorum colorum, 
Deus Nature. Pasupati vocant Nepal- 
Jenses phallum seu Lingam, quadrifor- 
mem; flavi, rubri, viridis, albique co- 
loris, (Georgius Alp. Tib. p. 152.) 
4. Budh dearg; t.e. ruddy Budh— 
Many lamas or priests of Budh, says Sir 
William Jones, have been found. settled 
in Siberia; but it can hardly be doubted, 
that lamas had travelled from Tibet, 
whence it is more probable, that the 
religion of Budha was imported into 
Southern Chinese’ Tartary; since we 
know that rolls of Tibetian writing 
have been brought even from the borders 
of the Caspian. The complexion of 
Budha himself, which, according to the 
Hindus, was between white and ruddy, 
would perhaps have convinced Mons. 
Bailly, bad he known the Indian tradi- 
tion, that the last great legislator, and 
god of the East, wasa Tartar. 
5. Seaccha so, craobh dearg; i. e. 
Seaccha the good, of the ruddy branch or 
family. According to Georgius and La 
Croze, Seaccha was the same as Budha. 
Xacam eundem esse ac Buddum, La 
Croze aliique non dubitant. Xacz no- 
minis origo a Saca Babiloniorum, Persa- 
rum numinc repetenda, (Georg. p. 21.) 
6. Phearaman, mac Budh dearg ; i. e. 
Pearaman, son of ruddy Buch. Tiis 
\owas Paraman, the founder of the Bra- 
mins, “ Jai remarqué que les Brames 
aimaient 4 etre appellés Paramanes, par 
respect pour la memoire de leur ancestres 
qui portoient ce nom (Bailly, Lettr. sur 
les Sciences,” p. 202). ‘ Pausanias nous 
dit, que Mercure, le méme gue Butta 
ou Budha un des fontdateurs de la doc- 
trine des Paramenes ou LBrames, est 
-appellé Parammon.” (Gebelin, Hist. Cal. 
Pref.) : 
7. Illbreac Easa Ruaid; i.e. the ever 
blessed Ruad of torrents and cataracts. 
It appears that Ruad was the presiding 
deity over waters. The great flood of 
Noah, they say was perfected by Ruad, 
_ ford seems so. positive. 
Dile Ruaid, Noah’s flood (Shaw's Gaelie 
Diet. &c.) Easar Ruaid, the cataract 
of Ruad, the name of the great water-fall . 
at Ballyshannon—Rwadh boine, flood- 
water (idem. )—botne in Irish, and bin 
wya2 in Arabic, signifies a tract of 
country and in the Chaldzan xy, Ruda, 
nomén angel: pluviis et irrigationi ter= 
v@ prefecti (Buxtorf).—Essay, p. 25. 
To this 1 must add, that the General 
in another place shews that Budha, or 
Butta, had his temple in Ireland, named 
Buttu-fun, the temple of Butta, now 
Butia-vant, in the county of Cork. 
These examples, and many others, 
Mr. Editor, which would be too long for 
insertion in your valuable Magazine, ap- 
pear to me to form such a mass of evi- 
dence, in favour of the general’s system, 
of these western islands being peopled by 
Indo-Séythians, mixed with a body of 
Chaldeans, which (to use the words of 
Agricola) it ‘will not be easy to over=_ 
throw. 
Why solearned a work, so new in its 
principles and discoveries, should be 
confined to, Ireland, and esteemed con- 
traband in England, I cannot imagine. 
Certain Iam, that the more it is commu- 
nicated, the more it will be admired, and 
will make it appear more than probable, 
that the Hindus. had a knowledge of 
this part of the globe, of which Mr, Wil- 
I beg leave to 
conclude with an extract fromr that gen- 
tleman’s last publication, and hope I 
shall not trespass on your patience. 
In the last volume of the Asiatic Re- 
searches, Mr. Wilford resumes the sub- 
ject of the sacred isles in the west. 
“‘T have (says he,) omitted no endea- 
vour to render this work as free from 
imperfections as my abilities would al- 
low; but the subject is so novei, and the 
source of information so remote from the 
learned in Europe, that I must confess [ 
feel no small degree of uneasiness on 
that account. : 
‘¢ The grand outline, and principa 
feature of this Essay, are also well known: 
to pandits and learned men in India. A 
few passages, anecdotes, and circum- 
stances may be, perhaps, unknown to 
many of them; but these are perfectly 
immaterial; and whether allowed to re- 
main or not, neither my foundation nor 
superstructtire ean he affected. 
“ The sacred isles inthe west, of which 
S’wita-dwipa, or the white island, is the 
principal and the most famous, are in fact 
the Holy Land of the Hindus. There the 
pasate fandamental 
