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I1I.—On Bupp,xa and the Phrabat. By Captain James Low, of the 
Madras Army, Cor. M.R.A.S. 
Read March 20, 1830. 
Tue particulars to be brought forward in this paper relative to the 
travels of the Siamese BuppHa,* and the Phrabdt, or divine Foot, have 
chiefly been derived from Bali and Siamese books. It must be premised, that 
this Bupp HA is the Bali Tuaxaro Sri Sacya Muni Kuopama, or Kuopom, 
who is venerated by all the Indo-Chinese nations, and whose doctrines and 
ordinances materially contribute to form their national character. It is 
impossible, however, to treat these subjects without being led back to times 
long antecedent to those of the Siamese Bupp,Ha ; for his worshippers have 
frequently mixed up with his history traditions respecting the elder Bupp Ha. 
The learned Mr. Wilson, as quoted by Mr. Crawfurd in the interesting 
account of his mission to Siam, describes the original Bupp Ha to have been 
a Tartar or Scythian, who flourished 1000 years B.C. But the age of the 
Siamese Bupp Ha was 542 B.C.; and the Bali writings rate it at ten antara 
calpas of years subsequent to the appearance of the third of that name, or 
Puoxaro KassapHo Puutpo. The same number of ca/pas is supposed to 
have intervened betwixt each BuppHA and his successor. The Siamese one, 
according to the Bali Ratana Kalapa (head Maha Samati Wangsa), was 
Sipp HaTTa Kumara, son of king Supop Hana and his queen Maua Maya. 
Sipp Hatta married Bimsa, alias SusHADDA Kacuatyena, and they had a 
son named Ranura. 
According to one Siamese account, this Bupp,HA visited the following 
countries : 
First. Singhdla Thipaké, or Sihala Dwipa, which is Ceylon ; whither he 
went for the purpose of expelling the Yakshas, or demons, who then ruled 
the island.t 
* Budha denotes a sage ; Buddja, a prophet. (Asiat. Res.) 
+ The writers on Indian chronology assert, that Bupp,1A, the ninth avatar of VisHNnvu, was 
born to confound the demons or idolaters, in the 156th year of the Kali yug ; and that his age 
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