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third
son
of
King
Kosjusvo,
went,
very
many
cen-
turies
ago,
from
India
to
China,
where
he
abode,
and
became
celebrated
for his
piety.
Like
the
fakirs
of
India,
he
showed
his
reHgious
tendencies
in
a
morbid
manner
—
Hving
only
under
heaven's
canopy,
fasting
for
weeks
together,
and
eliminating
sleep
altogether
from
his
daily
wants.
Tradition
says
that
this
state
of
things
continued
for
years,
until,
one
day,
weary
nature
asserted
her
pre-eminence,
and
Darma
slept.
Imagine
his
holy
horror
on
his
awakening!
Some-
thing
of
the
same
kind
must
have
possessed
Cranmer
when
he
stretched
forth
his
right
hand
in
the
flames
of
his
funereal
pyre,
with
the
heart-wrung
exclamation,
"
This
hand
hath
offended."
So
with
Darma
;
filled
with
pious
horror,
his
first
thought
was,
how
to
expiate
his
offence,
and
his
peccant
eyelids
were,
consequently,
cut
off
and
thrown
upon
the
ground.
Next
day,
re-
turning
to
the
spot
where
he
had
involuntarily
sinned,
he
saw
two
shrubs,
of
a
kind
never
before
beheld
in
China.
He
tasted
them,
found
them
aromatic,
and,
moreover,
possessing
the
quality
of
imparting
wake-
fulness
to
their
consumer.
The
discovery
and
miracle
became
noised
abroad,
and
hence
the
popularity
of
tea
in
China.
But,
apart
from
this
legend,
the
Chinese
themselves
have
no
certain
record
of
the
introduction
of
tea
into
their
country.
They
believe
that
it
was
in
use
in
'the
third
century,
and
in
the
latter
end
of
the
fourth
cen-
tury,
Wangmung,
a
minister
of
the
Tsin
dynasty,
made
it
fashionable
and
much
increased
its
consump-
tion.
In
all
probability
it
was
chewed
at
that
time,