The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-16
.uJDDHT 5 BONES FOUND
Genuine Relics of the Great
Hindu Reformer.
AT ANCIENT KAPILVASTU
Whose Ruins, After $500
Years, Are Laid Bare.

New York, Sept 1.-THE Journal says:
From India comes the news OF remark
able discoveries. The very bones of Bud
dab have been found, strangely parallel
ing the discovery Of the tombs Of the
gods in Egypt.
Buddah has been compared with Wooden,
of She Scandinavian, and Thoth. Of the
Egyptian MYTHOLOGY by some great ORR
entail scholars such as Professor H H.
Wilson who have doubted the reality Of
his life. But now Professor Vincent Smith
learned antiquary of Bengal, has found
the very home Of Buddah and some Of
his bones.
1t is current tradition that Buddah
was the son of Suddhodana. King Of
Kapilavastu. in Nepaul. India. This city
has at last been definitely located; it's
ruins have been laid bare. Buddah lived
and worked in the sixth century B. c.,
and Kapilvastu has been unoccupied since
40 B. c. Its ruins are now being exca-
waited, bringing to light buildings more
ancient than any others that have been
found in India.
Tradition stated that Buddah was born
in the Lumbini Garden. and this very spot
has been found. having been identified by
a pillar erected in the third century B. c.,
by the Emperor Asoka, the Constantine
Of Buddhism The inscription on the pill
lar is still perfect. 1t stands on the west
ern edge OF a mound of ruins about a
hundred yards in diameter, and on the
south side OF them ound is the tank in
which the child's mother bathed after its
birth.
But the most startling of this chain of
discoveries was made in a stupa, or
brick tunulus, close to the British 'front.'
ier-the relics of Buddah himself. These
consists of fragments of bone, which were
deposited in wooden vessel Which stood
at the bottom of a massive Golfer. more
than four feet long and two feet deep, cut
out of a solid block of fine sandstone.
This Golfer was buried under eighteen
feet Of masonary. composed of huge
bricks, each 16 inches long.
The wooden vessel was decayed and
with 1t was an exquisitely finished bowl
of royal crystal, the largest yet discovered
in India, together with five small vases
OF soapstone. All these vessels were par
TALLY filed, evidently in honor of the rel
les, with a marvellous of gold stars,
pearls, topazes, beryls and other Jewels
and Of various objects delicately wrought
In crystal, agate and other substances.
An inscription on one of the soapstone
vases declared the relics to be those of
Buddah himself. and the very characters
in which this inscription Is written are
substantially the same as those of the
Asoka inscriptions and indicate the tumu-
lus, or "stupa" was constructed between
300 and $50 B. c. These discoveries substan
tiate in every respect the oldest traditions
as to the birthplace and scene Of the ac-
tivity of Buddah, 2,400 years ago.
These discoveries will create a wide
spread sensation, not only among the
Christian students of Buddhism. but also
among the many hundred millions who
worship Sakya NUM- CBuddha) None can
any longer doubt the actually of that
man whose strikingly noble and humane
career has been frequently thought wor-
thy Of comparison with that Of Jesus.
Buddah was an original thinker and
teacher So. deeply conscious Of the de-
grading thraldom of caste and the priestly
tyranny of the Brailamans, and pro-
foundry impressed with the pathos and
struggles Of life, ne sought earnestly for
some method of escaping from existence
and its accompanying sorrows.