Captain James Low on Bupp Ma and the Phrabdt. 59 
In the Ratana Kalapa it is stated, that in the 236th year after Bupp,HA a 
prince, called Rasa Deva Nanepryatisa, sought for sacred knowledge, of 
Mauna Anicata Tera in Thuparama, in Lanca Dwipa ; and that about the 
period of Mana Sena’s reign a tooth of Bupp,Ha was conveyed to Lanca ; it 
is also stated in the Milinda Raja, that when Bupp ma had just reached that 
state of perfect rest and abstraction implied by Nivdn, his vase, or vessel 
in which he collected his daily subsistence from charitably disposed 
votaries, was conveyed as a holy relic to Lanca. 
Mr. Crawfurd* observes, that the earliest Siamese historians date the 
introduction of the Buddhist religion into Siam about 638 of our era. This 
nearly corresponds with the period at which, from being a Laos colony, 
Siam became a separate nation. Still it is not improbable that this religion 
may have prevailed amongst several of the Indo-Chinese tribes long prior to 
the date above assigned ; since there was an overland route to Camboja 
and China from India at a very remote period. It is further stated, in the 
Asiatic Researches, that the Peshkaras went to Ceylon about the year 77 
of our era, when it was overrun with demons. ‘This period was prior to 
that of PurtyA Krix, a Cambojan prince, whose warlike exploits in Upper 
Siam and Laos are subjects of Siamese romance, and from whom the com- 
mon or civil Siamese era is dated; but whose history, if not the same, is 
evidently modelled. on that of Winara Rasa, who was, according to 
Siamese Bali writings, born in Ayod,ha, and escaped the effects of the perse- 
cuting mandate of Katua Raga of that country.t 
In a Siamese history of Ligor, termed Phra Pathom, but with which 
much Hindu chronology is incorporated, an account is given of the defeat 
and death of Sincua Rasa of Thantabiri by five confederated princes ; of 
his religion was probably first disseminated among the Indo-Chinese nations. This was about 
twelve hundred years anterior to the time when the Siamese branched off from their parent 
stock, the Northern Lao or Laos. 
* Mr. Crawfurd’s Mission to Siam. 
+ The Siamese only recognize one Lanca, or Ceylon; and have no traditions, that have yet 
been ascertained, of the HindG Lanca. The Salmala Dwipa of the Puranas, according to a pre- 
face (therein adverted to) to the Surya Sidhanta, commented on by Sir W. Jones,(a) lies at a 
distance of four hundred and twenty-two yojanas, or 3,800 miles, to the east of Lanca; 
bringing it to the Gulf of Siam, and to that part beyond or east of Malacca. 
(a) Asiatic Researches. 
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