27) says: "The family name was certainly Gautama," adding in a note, "It is a curious fact that Gautama is still the family name of the Rajput chiefs of Nagara, the village which has been identified with Kapilavastu." Dr.Eitel says that "Gautama was the sacerdotal name of the Sakya family, which counted the ancient rishi Gautama among its ancestors." When we proceed, however, to endeavour to trace the connexion of that Brahmanical rishi with the Sakya house, by means of 1323, 1468, 1469, and other historical works in Nanjio's Catalogue, we soon find that Indian histories have no surer foundation than the shifting sand;--see E.H., on the name Sakya, pp.

108, 109.

We must be content for the present simply to accept Gotama as one of the surnames of the Buddha with whom we have to do.
(10) See chap.

vi, note 5.

It is there said that the prediction of Maitreya's succession to the Buddhaship was made to him in the Tushita heaven.