After the religion of Buddha had spread abroad, a certain king, desiring to know the truth as to cosmogony, inquired of the monks, and they, knowing the omniscience of Buddha, and yet fearing that if they say Buddha never taught this, people would say ´your lord is ignorant, and admired without reason´ took the ancient Vedas, and various expressions in Sutras and parables, and fables, and proverbs, and connecting them together into a book, the ´Traiphoom´, produced it as the teaching of Buddha.”