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central country of Asia: but whether the Buddhist and canine superstitions 
were co-existent or not, it would be no easy task to show. 
The dog has howled over the guilty in the infernal regions of Indian, 
Grecian, and Roman mythology. In the hells of the Hindus, the Burmans, 
and Siamese, he yells in the ears of the guilty shades, and tears them to 
pieces. Wilford has shown, that the Certara of Hindu mythology, one of 
the dogs of Yama, is indubitably the Cerberus of the Greeks: but Yama 
himself, Buppja observed *, is merely a name, and has no existence but 
in the mind’s eye. 
The dog is a sign of dignity, both in China and Siam. It appears so, at 
least, with respect to the former, from the badge which the portrait of 
Van-Ta-cINn, in “ Barrow’s Travels in China,” wears on his breast. And, 
with respect to the latter, Siamese writings show that the Sunak handm, 
or “Dog general,” is an honourable title in the field. In Japan the dog is, 
according to Kempfer, held in high estimation ; the cause does not appear 
to have been entirely of a religious nature. Kempfer says it was owing to 
one of their kings having been born under the sign of the dog. 
SECOND. 
The second impression of the Divine Foot may be seen, say the Siamese, 
on the Sawanna Capp,hate, or ‘Golden Mountain.” 
THIRD. 
Suwanna Kita. 
This is said to be the celebrated print of the Divine Foot on Adam’s 
Peak, in Ceylon; an account of which may be. seen in Captain Wilford’s 
paper in the Asiatic Researches, vol. 10. In the atana Kalapa it is 
stated, that the Soowanna Kita, or Adam’s Peak, retained this name in 
Konscamana’s time. In the period before him, which was that of 
Kaxoosunp,H4, Adam’s Peak was called Deva Kula; and in Kasstyapa’s 
time, Subbha Kuta, 
Lieutenant-Colonel Francklin notices +, that the impression of Bupp,Ha’s 
foot, on Adam’s Peak, has been acknowledged by his followers for a period 
of thirty centuries; the peak being termed Samanella: the impression is 
called Sri Padam like the Paduka near Bhagalpur. 
* In the Ratana Kalapa, a Bali work. 
+ Researches on the Tenets, &c. of the Jeynes and Budhists, p. 181. 
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