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INDIAN ISLANDERS. 221 ligion. The bare use of this word, however, which it is out of the question they could invent, and cer- tainly did not borrow from any modern source, may be considered as satisfactory evidence that they were Buddhists. The word Buddha, or Buda, is never to be dis- covered in any modern or ancient Javanese manu- script that I have heard of, as applicable to a dei- fied person of this name ; and there is no evidence from such a source of any worship to such a per- sonage. The names and attributes of the princi- pal gods of the Hindu pantheon are quite familiar to every Javanese scholar, but of the name of Buddha they are wholly ignorant. The images of the Hin- du deities they cannot, indeed, in general, parti- cularize by name, but they recognize them to be such, while those of Buddha they denominate Pail- dita Sabrangy or foreign Pundits or Brahmins. On the strength of these data, I may repeat, that the Buddhism of the Javanese was not the wor- ship of a deified person of the name of Buddha, but a modification of the worship of the destroying power ; and that the images of Buddha, so abun- dantly scattered over the island, represent the sages who brought about the reform. When Buddha isre presented on the sculptures of Boro Budur re- ceiving gifts of fruits and flowers, I conclude that he represents a priest receiving charity or donations from his disciples or followers, and not a divinity re-