So that, with the exception of these more than doubtful fragments, the entire Chaldean sacred literature has disappeared from the eyes of the profane as completely as the lost Atlantis. A few facts that were contained in the Berosian History are given later on, and may throw great light on the true origin of the Fallen Angels, personified by Bel and the Dragon. Turning now to the oldest specimen of Âryan literature, the _Rig Veda_, the student if he strictly follows in this the data furnished by the Orientalists themselves, will find that although the _Rig Veda_ contains only about 10,580 verses, or 1,028 hymns, yet in spite of the _Brâhmanas_ and the mass of glosses and commentaries, it is not understood correctly to this day. Why is this so? Evidently because the _Brâhmanas_, “the scholastic and oldest treatises on the primitive hymns,” _themselves require a key_, which the Orientalists have failed to secure. What, again, do the scholars say of Buddhist literature? Do they possess it in its completeness? Assuredly not. Notwithstanding the 325 volumes of the _Kanjur_ and _Tanjur_ of the Northern Buddhists, each volume, we are told, “weighing from four to five pounds,” nothing, in truth, is known of real Lamaïsm. Yet the sacred canon is said in the _Saddharmâlankâra_(12) to contain 29,368,000 letters, or, exclusive of treatises and commentaries, five or six times the amount of the matter contained in the _Bible_, which, as Professor Max Müller states, rejoices in only 3,567,180 letters. Notwithstanding, then, these 325 volumes (in reality there are 333, the _Kanjur_ comprising 108, and _Tanjur_ 225 volumes), “the translators, instead of supplying us with correct versions, have interwoven them with their own commentaries, for the purpose of justifying the dogmas of their several schools.”(13) Moreover, “according to a tradition preserved by the Buddhist schools, both of the South and of the North, the sacred Buddhist Canon comprised originally 80,000 or 84,000 tracts, but most of them were lost, so that there remained but 6,000”—as the Professor tells his audience. Lost, as usual—for Europeans. But who can be quite sure that they are likewise lost for Buddhists and Brâhmans?