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146 JESUS IN INDIA prominent rôle being ascribed to him among the circles of disciples by the ancient tradition. Page 103. He (Buddha) says: “Râhula is born to me, a fet- ter has been forged for me. " Page 103 (footnote). In the name Râhula there seems to be an allusion to Râhu, the sun and moon subduing (darken- ing) demon. EXTRACT 6 Tibet, Tartary and Mongolia; their Social and Political Condition, and the Religion of Boodh, as there Existing, by Henry T. Prinsep Esq. Second Edition (Wm. H. Allen & Co. London 1852) Pages 12-14. The earliest travels into Tibet Proper which have been transmitted to us, are those of the Jesuit fathers, Grueber and Dorville, who returned from China by that route in A. D. 1661, just four hundred years after Marco Polo's journey westward. They were the first Christians of Europe who are known to have penetrated into the populous parts of Tibet; for Marco Polo's journey was, as we have stated, to the north-west, by the sources of the Oxus. Father Grueber was much struck with the extraordinary similitude he found, as well in the doc- trine, as in the rituals, of the Boodhists of Lassa to those of his own Romish faith. He noticed first, that the dress