1810.—"... each mile will cost full one rupee (_i.e._ 2_s._ 6_d._), besides various little disbursements by way of BUXEES, or presents, to every set of bearers."—_Williamson, V. M._ ii. 235. 1823.—"These Christmas-boxes are said to be an ancient custom here, and I could almost fancy that our name of _box_ for this particular kind of present ... is a corruption of BUCKSHISH, a gift or gratuity, in Turkish, Persian, and Hindoostanee."—_Heber_, i. 45. 1853.—"The relieved bearers opened the shutters, thrust in their torch, and their black heads, and most unceremoniously demanded BUXEES."—_W. Arnold, Oakfield_, i. 239. BUCKYNE, s. H. _bakāyan_, the tree _Melia sempervivens_, Roxb. (N. O. _Meliaceae_). It has a considerable resemblance to the _nīm_ tree (see NEEM); and in Bengali is called _mahā-nīm_, which is also the Skt. name, _mahā-nimba_. It is sometimes erroneously called Persian Lilac. BUDDHA, BUDDHISM, BUDDHIST. These words are often written with a quite erroneous assumption of precision _Bhudda_, &c. All that we shall do here is to collect some of the earlier mentions of Buddha and the religion called by his name. c. 200.—"Εἰσὶ δὲ τῶν Ἰνδῶν οἱ τοῖς Βούττα πειθόμενοι παραγγέλμασιν· ὃν δι' ὑπερβολὴν σεμνότητος εἰς θεὸν τετιμήκασι."—_Clemens Alexandrinus_, Strōmatōn, Liber I. (Oxford ed., 1715, i. 359). c. 240.—"Wisdom and deeds have always from time to time been brought to mankind by the messengers of God. So in one age they have been brought to mankind by the messenger called BUDDHA to India, in another by Zarâdusht to Persia, in another by Jesus to the West. Thereupon this revelation has come down, this prophecy in this last age, through me, Mânî, the messenger of the God of truth to Babylonia."—The Book of _Mānī_, called _Shābūrkān_, quoted by _Albirūnī_, in his _Chronology_, tr. by Sachau, p. 190. c. 400.—"Apud Gymnosophistas Indiae quasi per manus hujus opinionis auctoritas traditur, quod BUDDAM principem dogmatis eorum, e latere suo virgo generaret. Nec hoc mirum de barbaris, quum Minervam quoque de capite Jovis, et Liberum patrem de femore ejus procreatos, docta finxit Graecia."—_St. Jerome, Adv. Jovinianum_, Lib. i. ed. Vallarsii, ii. 309. c. 440.—"... Τηνικαῦτα γαρ τὸ Ἐμπεδοκλέους τοῦ παρ' Ἕλλησι φιλοσόφου δόγμα, διὰ τοῦ Μανιχαίου χριστιανισμὸν ὑπεκρίνατο ... τούτου δὲ τοῦ Σκυθιανοῦ μαθητὴς γίνεται Βούδδας, πρότερον Τερέβινθος καλούμενος ... κ. τ. λ." (see the same matter from _Georgius Cedrenus_ below).—_Socratis, Hist. Eccles._ Lib. I. cap. 22.