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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
(SEPTEMBER, 1881.
or fifteen years. Fifteen years ago a Mali or hands, and leave their places of residence to gardener set up the idol, and began to cheat visit the idol. After visiting the idol, they go the people by stating that it had appeared there round the temple for a certain number of times. of its own accord. Both men and women They then leave the temple to bathe in a visit the temple and worship the idol. The neighbouring tank. After bathing, they return very strange fact regarding this worship is, to the temple, worship the idol and return home. says the writer, that the worshippers, before The writer wishes that this indecency should commencing the worship, strip naked, apply be put down. He states that when the Hon. powdered sandalwood to their whole bodies, Mr. Chapman, the present Chief Secretary to put on the ornaments they may have, hold a Government, was Collector of Satârâ, he punishsmall branch of the nimb tree in their foldeded some of the naked worshippers."
BUDDHIST PILGRIMS FROM CHINA TO INDIA.
BY THE REV. S. BEAL, B.A.
(Concluded from p. 197.) IV. Other Pilgrims who reached India copying many Sutras; and was deeply versed mostly by the Northern route.
in the Vinaya and Abidharma. After going 1. Tao Hi, a Doctor of the Law, a man of eastward and visiting the Cock-foot mountain, the district Lih-shing, of the department and bathing in the Dragon-pool to the westTs'ai chau (Shan-tung?), his Sanskrit name ward, he died at Nalanda et. about 70. Srideva. He was a man of noble descent. 4. Hwu i-Nieh, a Doctor of the Law, & Having gone through India visiting the sacred Corean, in the middle of the Cheng-kwan period, places, he came to the Mahabodhi, where he re- 638 A.D., went to the west and dwelt in the Bodhi mained several years, and then proceeded to temple, where he adored the sacred relics and Nalanda. He likewise visited the country then went to Nalanda, where he dwelt for a of Kusisnagara). The Mung king of the long time, reading and studying. I-tsing when Amaravat country greatly respected him. arranging some Chinese books suddenly saw Whilst remaining at Nalanda he studiously ap- under the title this record, "Whilst dwelling plied himself to the Great Vehicle. He resided under the Tooth-Brush tree, the Corean priest also in the Chu-po-pun-na (the garden of the
Hwu i-Nieh wrote this record.” On enquiry cremation; the Temple of the Nirvana), and at the temple, the priests said that he died there studied the Vinayapițaka, and the Sabdavidya. the same year, about 60 years of age. The Whilst in the Ta-hsio temple (the Mahâbodhi) Sanskrit books he wrote were preserved at he engraved a memorial tablet in the Chinese Nalanda language. He left more than 400 volumes, 5. Yuan Ta'i, a Doctor of the Law, & new and old, in Chinese, Sátras and Sástras, at Corean, called by the Sanskrit name of SarNalanda. I-tsing did not meet him (he fell vajña nadeva. In the year Yung-hwei (650 sick in the Amaravat country, and died aged A.D.) he went by the Thibetan road through 50 years or so), but he saw his chamber. Nepal to Middle India; he there worshipped the
2. Sse-pin, a Doctor of the Law, a man of relics at the Bodhi Tree, afterwards going to Ts'ai-cha 1, went after Hua n-chin through the Turkhåra country he met Tao-Hi, with North India, and then through Western India, whom he returned to the Ta-hsio temple till he came to A maraku va. He there dwelt (Mahâbodhi). Afterwards he returned to China, in the royal temple in high favour with the and was not heard of again. king. Here he met Ta o u-hi, a fellow towns- 6. Yuan-ha a, a Doctor of the Law, a man. After remaining here one summer, he Corean, went with Yuan-chin in the middle sickened and died at. 35 years.
of the Chéng-kwan period to India, and reach3. Aryavarma, a Corean, in the middle | ing the Ta-hsio temple, he died there. period Chéng-kroan, 638 A.D., left Chang'an and 7. Bodhidharma, a man of the Tur-- came to Nalanda, where he engaged himself in khâra country, of great bodily size and strength,
20 The principal shrine or temple of EllammA is at Ugar- interesting to know the details of its history within tooent gol near Sanndatti in the Belgaum di
very old one, and so probably is the idol. It would be
