London,
T. Richardson & Son." (Printed At Derby, 1847.) Here In Palermo Is A
Church Bearing The Dedication Divo Iosaphat.
Professor Mueller attributes the first recognition of the identity of the
two stories to M. Laboulaye in 1859.
But in fact I find that the historian
de Couto had made the discovery long before.[5] He says, speaking of
Budao (Buddha), and after relating his history:
"To this name the Gentiles throughout all India have dedicated great and
superb pagodas. With reference to this story we have been diligent in
enquiring if the ancient Gentiles of those parts had in their writings any
knowledge of St. Josaphat who was converted by Barlam, who in his Legend
is represented as the son of a great King of India, and who had just the
same up-bringing, with all the same particulars, that we have recounted of
the life of the Budao.... And as a thing seems much to the purpose, which
was told us by a very old man of the Salsette territory in Bacaim, about
Josaphat, I think it well to cite it: As I was travelling in the Isle of
Salsette, and went to see that rare and admirable Pagoda (which we call
the Canara Pagoda[6]) made in a mountain, with many halls cut out of one
solid rock ... and enquiring from this old man about the work, and what he
thought as to who had made it, he told us that without doubt the work was
made by order of the father of St. Josaphat to bring him up therein in
seclusion, as the story tells.
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