The date of the Scythian invasion, then, being fixed as B.C. 1002, it is agreed on all hands that that of the _Tuath-de-danaans_ was but two hundred years anterior, or B.C. 1202;[493] with this _exactly corresponds the time at which Marsden, Kæmpfer, and Loubere date the arrival of the Buddists at Siam_, viz. B.C. 1202. Among the Japanese also, they are stated by Klaproth to have arrived not very distant from that era, or B.C. 1029. Dé Guignes and Remusat suppose 1029 as the epoch at which they invaded China. B.C. 1000 is the epoch assigned by Symes for their descent upon the Burman empire; and B.C. 1029 is that fixed by Ozeray for their entrance into Ceylon; while the Mogul authors and the Bagwad Amrita (Sir W. Jones) recognise their appearance respectively at B.C. 2044 and B.C. 2099. Now, the extreme concordance amongst the calculations of those various countries, one with the other, and their almost universal coincidence, nay, _in the Siamese authorities_, almost _miraculous identifications, with our Irish registries_, as to the influx, amongst all, of this singular people, and their extraordinary ritual, makes us associate the phenomena with one common cause, and that was the _expulsion_ of the Budhists from India, the Rajas having proclaimed, at the instigation of the rival Brahmins, that “from the bridge of Rama, even to the snow-capped Himala, no man should spare the Budhists, young or old, on pain of death” (_Guigniaud’s Creuzer_). As to the Mogul dates, and those of the Bagwad Amrita, they evidently bear reference to former colonies; nor are _we_, in Ireland, without similar chronicles of an antecedent arrival, and precisely answering to the time of the _first departure_ of the Tuath-de-danaans from the borders of Persia.[494] It was, indeed, the tradition of this early invasion, long mystified by age, that we have seen so perverted at p. 385, for the sole purpose of effecting a miracle! Nor is this the only fable that fastens upon that narrative: we have that of Partholan and of Nemedius, and a thousand other reminiscences, all directing towards the centre of a common nucleus. The _East_ is the point whither they all aim, and the era they assign is invariably that of the _deluge_! Is it not, therefore, inevitable, but that the object recorded is our reception of the Tuath-de-danaans when ejected by the arms of their Pish-de-danaan rivals?[495]