Essays Lectures on Religion of Hindu Vol 02

Author(s): H H Wilson
Publisher: Trubner and Company London

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BAUDDHA TRACTS FROM NEPAL.
"I adore the Lord MAITREYA, the chief of Sages, residing at Tushitapur, who will assume a mortal birth at Ketumati, in the family of a Brahman honoured by the king, and who, endowed with immeasurable excellence, will obtain the degree of Buddha, at the foot of a Naga tree; his existence will endure 8000 years.
"Having praised the seven Buddhas, supreme over all, and resplendent as so many Suns, as well as the future eighth Buddha, MAITREYA, dwelling at Tushitapur, may the merit of such praises be quickly productive of fruit, so that having divided all corporal bonds I may speedily obtain the final liberation of the holy Sages."
REMARKS.
The enumeration given in these verses is, therefore, very different from that of Dr. BUCHANAN and Capt. MAHONY, and instead of five or six we have eight deified Buddha teachers or human Buddhas: the former writer has only specified two names, GAUTAMA and ŚAKYA, of which the first does not occur in the Nepal list, whilst in another place he observes that ŚÁKYA is considered by the Burmese Buddhists as an impostor: the latter has mentioned the names of the Buddhas, and they are evidently the same as the last five of the Nepal Stotra.
KAKOOSONDEH,
KONAGAMMEH,
KASERJEPPEH,
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KRAKUCHHANDA,
KANAKA,
KASYAPA,