68 Captain Jamzs Low on Buppwa and the Phrabdt. 
Very opposite origins have been assigned to this impression. ‘The Singha- 
lese, according to Captain Mahony, affirm that after Buppwa returned for 
the third time to Ceylon, fifteen years subsequent to his first arrival, he visited 
sixteen different places in a minute ; and’placing his foot on the Sammanela 
Sri Pada, from thence ascended to heaven. The number of journies here 
noted agrees nearly with the account before given. But it would appear 
from the manner in which they are thus hurried over, and from information 
furnished to us by various papers in the Asiatic Researches, that the 
Singhalese priests are either more ignorant of the Bali language than the 
Chauku, or priests of Siam, or have got records of a less authentic descrip- 
tion. lI incline to the former supposition, having received much curious 
information from a Singhalese priest, who was versed in Bali lore. 
FOURTH. 
Although the Fourth Prapatha, or Phrabdt, is said to be extant in the country 
called Nak,hapuri (némathaya rattin); which some Siamese, ridiculously 
enough, suppose to mean Wot or Yo-wn, or Cochin China; and others, 
more consistently, assign it to the banks of the Jumna, or Yamana Nathi, 
as they term it. 
Nakhapuri, or Nagapuri, is also the country of the Nagas, or snakes. 
Lieutenant-Colonel Francklin, in his account of the Jainas, alludes to 
the Vasa Padukas, or sacred feet, to be seen in the Jain temple at 
Champanagar. 
The most intelligent amongst their priests consulted by me, directly 
affirmed that the impression is, in their belief, to be seen in the country 
in which the hill Khaw Nang Rung is situated; and on or near which 
there are four celebrated footsteps. But it is requisite to state that the 
Siamese are very ignorant of the geography of Hindostan. The following 
description of Nang Rung was given to me by an intelligent and commu- 
nicative Siamese traveller, who some years ago had gone to that place in 
the suite of the heir-apparent of Che-ung-mai, in Laos, whose ostensible 
object was to search for gold; but in which however he was not suc- 
cessful .* 
* The Siamese, independent of their belief, in common with all Asiatics, in the possibility of 
transmuting various substances into gold, are also attached to the quixotic search for it over 
distant regions. 
