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226 ANCIENT EELIGION OF THfi ^ far from improbable that other sectaries also exist- ed, though they may not have been numerous or powerful enough to have left any permanent record of their existence. A passage from the Cheribon ma- nuscript, alluded to and quoted by Sir Stamford Raffles, would seem to suggest that the doctrines of Wishnu were prevalent in the western portion of the island, but this is an insulated argument, unsubstantiated by any other testimony. The question of the country of those Hindus who disseminated their religion over the Indian islands, is one of curious interest, but we should refer in vain for a solution of it to any record a- mong the Hindus or oriental islanders. The evi- dence to be drawn from the examination of lan- guage is equally unsatisfactory ; notwithstanding this, the fact may be ascertained with a consi- derable approximation to probability. That coun- try was Telinga, more properly Kalinga, or, as it is universally written and pronounced by all the Indian islanders, Kaling, Kal'mga is the only country of India known to the Javanese by its proper name, — the only country familiar to them, — and the only one mentioned in their books, with the exception of those current in religious- le- gends. Hence they designate India always by this name, and know it by no other, except, in- deed, when, by a vanity for which their ignorance is an apology, they would infer the equality of their