86 HISTORY OF JAVA.
£ Ë p | H t e f e iRSjiâ made M tradition, which, selddm busies itseh; ©».
sept, Mth e^teii^iVe aiid ganguinary yfirg, pr great political changes. Anioflg
thæsfe may. havé. ioufishod the celebrated-J%a, Sâya, , ire wheW. r'eigtt the
Bréta Yûdhà ia;said to have been coraposed by. the Pandita Pukêâa. In the
acepuht Qbtajoed ffioin Sûrct-kérfa, this prince, as we Mve ieéti) ‘id related
to have reigned in jhe eighth céa^iy- in the; country- of Kediri. '
•■ i,.*3K*pVAéïflpléS.-^..Sntmàénm (.the. e'xtehsive. remhirishf whidh,'. wi(h;J*the
putfiere^ ea^ts ia raetjil fouhd in.theit Vicinity, .prove the high state whidh
the arts.had .attained ia a remote dgë, and aflförd incohtégtibl&eyidéncé oflhfe
.festablishrtieht.of the Hindu .Worship .in-thié earliest :perit)ds of divan histórA
are stated in some accöuüts..to havé, heen èonstràcted intthe*year. à%<5, and lil
éthets .in the year 1018;} but as.far aa.fche gèùeral. tradiiîop iiiay bd relied
éPî ^Lgefcmà jneet prdbaMe. that they .werei thëwork M the-sixth ohsevehtb
«gîltoftefe This hpihion. derives coiiffctriatioh from the feet* .thafuîüTing..thfe
period idol Worship incfeasetl in Japàrr. Abundance of.idols' atad idol
Safyers, ahd .griésts». amved in that qûéiter fréta several cauntHës. beÿbtfâ
bea3 and local trajiliods assertj that it that titne similar emigrations first
took placé tö Java add the eastern islands,*
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* “ King -AfesHcceededhis brother (as Emperor of Japan) in the year àî,Synmu,oi Christ 540.
. “ He was a very religious .prince, and very favourahiy inclined to the foreign pagan Uudsdo
‘ 'worship, which during his reign spread with great success in Japan, insomuch that the em-
P°r')r himself caused several temples to be built to foreign idols, and ordered the idol of
“ Su3s, -%<Fotb‘g&i tó b e carved in Fâkkusai, I ’that is ik China.
“ My Japanese anther mentions wiiat follows, as something very remarkable, and says, that
“ ik happened in the thirty-first year of his reign, and contributed, very mueh to the advànce-
ttu ™ent of the Builsdo religion. About a thousand years ago, says my author, there was in
“ Tdutensiku (that is the middle Tendhi, whereby must be understood the country of the
. Mâlaharians and the coast of Coromandel in India) an eminent fotoke called Mohirën, a
“ disciple of Staka. About the same time the dpetfike bf Jamboden Gonno Biarai ’(that ft
“ dmida th é great god.and patron of departed souls) was"brought over into China, or Fahkusai,
v f “ d 9?read mto 016 neighbouring countries. This doctrine, continues he, dad now manifest
“ ltself also m Tsinohini, or Japan, at a place called Nankua, where the idol of Ami da appeared
“ at the entry of a pond, environed With golden rays, nobody knowing how it was conveyed
“ thdher. The pious Cmperor, in memory o f this miraculous event, instituted the first Nenaoin
Japan, and called it Konqub. Thé idol itself was by Tondo JosijmiCz, aprihce of great courage
% and Piety- carried into the country of Smano, and placed in the temple of Sinquàsi, where
V J-t afterwards, by the name of Sinqiiosi, Norai (that-is.the Norai or Aniida of Sinquosi) wrought
maity great miracles, which made that temple famous all over the empire. Thus, far my
“ Japanese author. He was succeeded by his son, Fit Atzu, or Fint Alz, in the year of
“ Synmu
JDewa Kasuma is represented by the Javan writers to have been a prince of Jaae’^a,
greatAfdeot and enlargetl-v&ws, .and by his mild and benificent government
to have induced many i f his relations to submit to his authority;,
which If# a short time extended oyer all the provinces eastward of
Jcmana. But the most interesting fact related of him is, that he sent
his :-children, consisting of four sons 'and a daughter, to India ( Klmg%
in order that they might there be educated and instructed in the religion of
Brdma; from whence the eldest son having married the daughter of one of
-the greatest princes of the country, returned to Java with three large:,ships,
laden with lo.ngcloth and other valuable manufactures, and bringing with
him able artists of different professsions, and a thousand chosen troops presented
* Synmu 1232, of Christ 572. My author makes no mention .of hisage, but sets down the
“ fallowing rwnurlcahle events whwhfiappeaed during his reign. In Jfee Ihird'yeat of h^ye^i,
“ on the first day of th e ’first month, was horn at the emperor’s court Sotoklais, the p tm t
»(.apostle; of l i e Japanese. His birth was preceded and attended with, several remarkable
circMstan^s. v
“ Tile -idoi worship in general increased greatly in Japan during the emperor’s reign.
“ Abnndance of idols, and idol carvers, and priest's, came from several countries beyond sea.
■“ In the eighth year of his reign the first-image of. Sialca was brought over from beyond sea,
« Bad carried to Nara into rite temple of Kobtisi, where it is still kept in great veneration,
“ possessed of the chief and most eminent place in that temple.
In the fourteenth year of his reign one Maria, a great antagonist and professed enemy of
“ Sotoktais, ' occasioued great troubles and religious dissensions in the empire. He bore a
“ mortal hatred to all .the Fotoge or idols of the country, which he took-out of the. temples and
« burnt wherever he could come a t them: but within two years time his enemies g o t the better
“ of him, for he was overcome, and paid with his life for his presumptuous -enterprise. I t is 4 added, that having thrown the ashes of the' idols, which he had burnt, into a lake, there
“ arose suddenly a most dreadful storm of thunder, lightning, and rain.
History of Japan by Kemyfer, vol. i. page 167-
I t i s remarkable, that a peculiar people seem to have traversed Mexico in the following
century, and according to Humboldt in dike manner to have left behind them traces
pf cultivation and civilization. “ The Toidtecs," says that eminent author, " appeared
“ first in 6‘1'S, the Chichimecs in 1170, the Nahualtics in 1178, : and .the . Aztecs in 1196.
“ The TquUecs introduced' the cultivation of maize and cotton; they built cities, made
« roads, mid constructed -those great pyramids which are yet admired, and of which the laces
«.UreoKery accurately laid out. They knew the rise of .hiercglyphical: paintings; they eqplft
.found metals and cut-the hardest stones, and' they had a solar year more perfect than, th at
“ of the Greeks or Romans The form of their government indicated that they were the de-
-£1 scendants. of a people, who had experienced great vicissitudes in .-their social state.”
" But where,” asks Humboldt, “ is the source -of that cultivation; where is thexountry from
“ which tlieToultecs -and Mexicans issued ?"—Humboldt's Political Essay on New-Spoilt.