In this book Buddha instructs his teacher; as in the "Gospel of the Infancy" Jesus explains to his teacher the meaning of the Hebrew alphabet.

So Buddha tells his teacher the names of sixty-four alphabets.

The first authentic inscription in India is of Buddhist origin, belonging to the third century before Christ.
In the most ancient Vedic period the language had become complete.

There is no growing language in the Vedas.
In regard to the age of these Vedic writings, we will quote the words of Max Mueller, at the conclusion of his admirable work on the "History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature," from which most of this section has been taken:-- "Oriental scholars are frequently suspected of a desire to make the literature of the Eastern nations appear more ancient than it is.

As to myself, I can truly say that nothing would be to me a more welcome discovery, nothing would remove so many doubts and difficulties, as some suggestions as to the manner in which certain of the Vedic hymns could have been added to the original collection during the Brahmana or Sutra periods, or, if possible, by the writers of our MSS., of which most are not older than the fifteenth century.