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by encouraging polytheism. And further, the intent with which it was 
originally framed—namely, to embody in one grand symbol a complete 
system of theology and theogony—should seem to have been gradually 
forgotten, or perverted by succeeding ages to the purposes of a ridiculous 
superstition. 
That it has ever been connected with the Hindu religion, and partly, at 
least, with the primeval one, of which ¢hat is the scion, cannot well be ques- 
tioned; but it is extremely doubtful if the Brahmans of India were the 
inventors of it: even although their descendants, as Lieutenant, afterwards 
Colonel, Wilford * has observed, insist that the Pra Pada was made by the 
foot of Pravana; and although, as we find in the Asiatic Researches, and 
are told by Mr. Maurice, footsteps of the Hindu Visunu are frequent. Thus, 
three were left in the fifth Avatar ; and Axrur Kansas, when he came to 
Vindravan, saw in the courtyard of Nunp,Ha the mark of the divine foot of 
Crisuna, and recognized the Padma, the Chacra, and the Geda. At Chan- 
dragurus, a small hill near the famous Jain statue called Gomuta ZIswara, 
symbols of the nature alluded to are still to be seen. 
Racuu, according to Wilford, erected pillars of conquest in each of the 
Durpas ; which were nine principal and eleven subordinate ones. 
The Siamese, in strict accordance with the Bali text, acknowledge only 
Jive genuine Phrabdts, which I shall now endeavour to describe. 
The five Phrabdts are called, in Bali, Pancha Pra Pat,ha ; in Siamese, Ha 
Phra Bat ; in English, The five impressions of the Divine Foot. 
THE FIVE IMPRESSIONS OF THE DIVINE FOOT. 
FIRST. 
Suwanna Malike Phrabat P hok ha. 
The Siamese allege that this impression is extant on the coast of the 
peninsula of Malacca, opposite to Selan, or Salang, as they term Junk Ceylon. 
And here some notice may be taken of an indication of a totally different 
species of superstition, said to have been discovered on that island; viz. a 
Rédetin, as it is termed by the Siamese, or impression of a dog’s foot, toge- 
ther with an image of that animal, which is reported to have once existed 
upon a rock at the northern point of the island, and which are said to be held 
* Asiatic Researches. + Ibid. vol. iii. 
Vor. III. K 
