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furnished in the colophon to Rasahridaya (trans. p. 12). During the decadence of Buddhism and the corresponding ascendancy of Brahminism in Bengal, say about the 11th to 13th centuries A. D., this branch of science also found a safe retreat in the land of the Kirátas as we have already seen. Burnell, under the influence of his preconceived notion, namely that Indian alchemy owed its origin to the Arabs, very naively remarks: "By Bauddhas he (the author) probably means the Muhammedans (cf. the vernacular Malayálam use of the word), though studies of this nature were much pursued by the later Buddhists."*