to the more learned of whom the subjects of the Plates in Mr. C.'s book are perfectly familiar. One quotation from Mr. C.'s text, and I have done. At p. 209, vol. II, he observes: "The fact most worthy of attention, in respect to the images of Buddha is, that they never appear in any of the great central temples as the primary objects of worship, but in the smaller surrounding ones, seeming themselves to represent votaries. They are not found as single images, but always in numbers together,* seeming, in a word, to represent, not Deities themselves, but sages worshipping Siva." THE whole secret of this marvel is, that the temples seen by Mr. C. were not genuine Chaityas, but either composite Chaityas, or structures still less exclusively appropriated to the Dii majores of Buddhism. The genuiue Chaitya is a solid structure exclusively appropriated to the Dhyani Buddhas, whose images are placed in niches round the base of its hemisphere. Mànùshi Buddhas and Dhyani and Mànùshi Bhodisatwas and Lokeswaras, with their Saktis, are placed in and around various hollow temples, less sacred than the Chaityas. These Bodhisatwas and Lokeswaras never have the peculiar face of the Buddhas, but, instead thereof, long-braided locks like Siva, often also the sacred thread and other indications apt to be set down as proofs, "strong as holy writ," of their being Brahmanical Deities. Such indications, however, are delusive, and the instances of Plates 27 and 28, shew how Mr. C. was misled by them. By the way, Mr. C. is biassed by his theory to discover Sivaism, where it did not and could not exist, of which propensity we have an odd instance (unless it be an oversight or misprint) in p. 219: for no one needs be told that Hari is Vishnu, not Siva,t and I may add that in adopting as Dii minores, the Gods of the Hindoo Pantheon, the Bauddhas have not, by any means, entirely confined themselves to the Sectarian Deities of the Saivas. I am, Sir, Your obedient Servant, H. September 10, 1828. AND why not? for Buddha is a mere title: and though there are but 5 Dhyani Buddhas, there are hundreds of Mànushis, which latter are constantly placed about temples in vast numbers; always as objects, though not, when so placed, special ones of worship. + SEE also pp. 221-2, for a singular error into which apparently Mr C.'s pursuit of his theory could alone have led him. Flowers not offered by Hindoos to their Gods, and therefore Buddha was a sage merely, and not a God!! P. S.-A theistic sect of Bauddhas having been announced, as discovered in Nipal, it is presently inferred that this is a local pe culiarity. Let us not be in too great haste: Mr. Crawfurd's book, (loco citato) affords a very fine engraving of an image of Akshobhya, the 1st Dhyani, or Celestial Buddha, see Plate 29, and I have remarked generally, that our engravings of Bauddha architecture and sculpture, drawn from the Indian Cave temples, from Java, &c. conform in the minutest particulars, to the existing Saugata monuments of Nipal-which monuments prove here, (as at Java), the Foreign and Indian origin of Nipalese Buddhism, animals, implements, vehicles, dresses being alien to Nipal, and proper to India. LIST OF WORKS PUBLISHED IN CALCUTTA, SINCE MARCH, 1828. IN giving the following List of Works, published in Calcutta, we have to apologise for the length of the interval that has elapsed since our last notice of local publications. 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