Captain Jars Low on Bupp,wa and the Phrabat. 69 
This traveller told me that Nang Rung lies about fifteen days’ march, 
on an elephant, north-west of Che-ung-mai; and that such is the scantiness 
of the population on the route, that pilgrims find it requisite to take pro- 
visions with them for the whole journey. ‘Travellers must likewise be 
well armed against attack or surprise by Burman freebooters. 
The heir-apparent alluded to went to pay a devotional visit to the holy 
Phrabat, which is visited by devotees from the most distant provinces of 
Siam, Laos, and Ava, as is the famous Dagun pagoda at Ranguin. 
Nang Rung, he said, lies in the midst of an extensive and deep forest, 
which spreads over broken ranges of hills. The Phrabdt stands upon a 
raised terrace, like those on which most of their temples are built. The 
pyramidal building, Maratapa, or Maradop, which is built over it, consists 
of hewn stone, and is judged to be sixty wdd, or ninety feet high. 
In order to obtain a more correct idea of the superstructure, my in- 
formant, who was a tolerable draftsman, gave me a drawing of it, a copy 
of which is here appended ;* but the accuracy of which I cannot vouch for. 
This Phrabdt is a compound one, each impression rising above the other ; 
so that any hieroglyphics it may contain are only visible in the uppermost 
one. There are four of these, corresponding to the four descents of the deity. 
Dr. Leyden, without specifying the place, has remarked generally, that 
“ it is in the country of the Laz that all the celebrated founders of the 
religion of Buppua are reported to have left their most remarkable vestiges. 
These traces of the sacred foot are sparingly scattered over Pegu, Ava, 
and Arracan. But it is among the Lad that they are concentrated ; 
whither devotees repair to worship at the sacred steps of Pra Kukuson, Pra 
Kounakon, Pra Putthakatsop, and Pra Samutacadam.” 
FIFTH. 
The fifth impression of the Divine Foot is supposed to have been left on 
the banks of the Nimma thaya Nathica, the Siamese Yamana Nathi, or 
River Jumna. This river, in the Bali, is said to spring from the silver hill 
of Hemawa, or the Himalaya. 
In the first volume of the Asiatic Researches, Mr. Wilmot has recorded 
an inscription copied by him from the remains of a temple, part of which 
runs thus: “ The Divine Foot of Visunu was set up by Amana, the Illus- 
trious, in this place, celebrated by the name of Buddha Gaya.” 
* Plate IL. 
