The Voyage of Francois Pyrard of Laval to the East Indies, the Maldives, the Moluccas and Brazil Volume 80. Fran Ois Pyrard
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...and that there appeared to them every month an evil spirit, one of the Jinn, who came from the direction of the sea. He resembled a ship full of lamps. The custom of the natives, as soon as they perceived him, was to take a young virgin, to adorn her, and to conduct her to a budlchtinc, ' that is to say, an idol temple, 1 I.e.. Jesus of Yemen. ' Christopher gives buqlu as the modern Maldive for " image" (J. R. A. S., vol. vi, O. 8., p. 57). The word was probably borrowed from the Persian bud or bod, an idol. which is probably taken from Budah. Budparast= idolater. The word bod, too, is a general term for an image with the Arab Oriental travellers' and may only indicate that the Buddhist parts of India. were the first visited by the Arabs (Journ. As, 1845, p. 167). Ibn Batuta eL=ewhere says that the Jame. Masjid of Delhi was built upon the site of a former Budkhcina; he does not therefore mean to imply here that the word was Maldive. As to the question whether Buddhism prevailed at the Maldives. see vol. i. p. 123, note. The Cretan sacrifice here described had of course no connection with Buddhism, and, likely enough, is mere legend: though it is probable enough that the temple with which the legend was connected was Buddhist. which was built on the sea-shore and had a window by which she Ibn Bstntl. was visible. They left her there during the night and returned in the morning, at which time they were wont to find the young girl dishonoured and dead. Every month they drew lots, and he upon whom the lot fell gave up his daughter. At length arrived among them a Maghrabinl Berber, called Ab1'Z'l-bara/edt, who knew by heart the glorious Kuran. He was lodged in the house of an old woman of the island Mahal. One day he visi...
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