62 Captain James Low on Buppa and the Phrabdt. 
The fifteenth, to Phaiyasali Sdwat, where the king of the country enter- 
tained him munificently. 
His sixteenth visit was to the Suwdna Bap,hatdni, the Siamese P,hok,han 
thong, or golden mountain. 
The seventeenth to Chakravdn, or the equinoctial line, and Ayodha. 
The eighteenth and last journey of Buppua was to Kusinara (the Kosin- 
narai of the Siamese, and the Hindu Kusumapiri, or Rangamatty), which 
was then governed by Samonia Rasa,* who was contemporary, according to 
Siamese Bali legends, with king Asarasattru of Raja Gaha. Buppma here 
abode some time in a chaitya, or temple, and then entered Nivan. 
The Siamese term the golden mountain, Khan Phra Phuthi Batt, ‘the 
hill with the holy footstep of Bupp ma.” 
In the Bali Ratana Kalapa, extant in Ceylon, it is related that in the 
time of Konagamana, or the second Bupp,Ha, Lanka Dwipa was termed 
Warra Dwipa, its city Waddha, and its king Rasa Samippuo; and that it 
contained a hill called Swwana Kuta. In the Phra Pathom of the Siamese, 
Bupp a is said to have left impressions of his feet at Lanca and Chakravan. 
The Siamese suppose that there was an impression of the divine foot on 
the continent opposite to Junkceylon ; but if by Chakravdn he meant the 
equinoctial line, it will bring the Phrabdt to Malacca. The present golden 
mountain of the Siamese exists but in fancy. Their principal Phrabdé is 
placed on a raised mound, and lies, according to Siamese charts, on the 
west bank of the river which descends from Suwwanap,hon.t 
This impression, supposed by the Siamese to be that of the right foot of 
BuppMa, is covered by a Maradop or Maratapa, which is, like most of the 
edifices consecrated to their religion, of a pyramidal form, and is supported 
by gilded pilasters. The footstep is generally covered with water, which 
the devotee sprinkles over his body to wash away the stains of sin. 
* Perhaps this king was the Samatya Rasa, a contemporary of CuanpRacupta and of 
ALEXANDER THE GREAT, according to the Asiatic Researches. (a) 
+ Sir W. Jones assures us, that in the Puranas mention is made of a whife mountain on which 
king SRAVANA sate meditating on the divine foot of Visunv at the station Trivirama. 
+ In M. de la Loubére’s map, however, it is placed on the left or east bank. It is about ten 
miles distant from the banks of that river. Vide M. de la Loubére’s account of the Phrabat in 
his History of Siam. 
(a) Vol. v. p. 262. 
