Captain James Low on Buppa and the Phrabdt. 71 
dred and eight nations offer up fervent prayers at the holy spots where 
Bupp Ma has left impressions of his feet. 
As no explanation has, to my knowledge, ever been given of a Phrabdat, 
and as the subject is curious in itself, and has reference to the prevailing 
religions in very remote eras, the lover of oriental antiquities will not, 
perhaps, be displeased at an attempt towards a farther elucidation of it. 
It will also enable me to epitomize and expose at once to view many 
appendages to the Budd hist system of religion, which, although with them 
apocryphal and strictly Hindt, yet coming before them wrapped in the 
venerable Bali, claim their peculiar respect and veneration. 
The Phradbdts in Burman pagodas nearly agree with those in Siamese ones ; 
but the order of the symbol rarely corresponds in any two of them. The 
Tavoy Phrabdt is engraved on a large slab of stone, and being of no ant- 
quity is very distinct. The compartments are fewer, and the subjects 
scantier, than in the drawing here produced.* It need not therefore be 
described. 
In the drawing of the figures, which appear on a slab of marble in a 
modern Jain temple at Sirohi (as described and illustrated by Lieut.-Col. 
Francklin), may be recognized several of the emblems impressed on a 
Phrabdt. The following are distinctly to be traced, viz. the Lion, the 
Elephant, the Sun and Moon in their cars, drawn by oxen instead of horses, 
as in a Phrabdét; the Horse, the Vase, GAngs’a, the Serpent, the spiral 
Building, and tiers of Devatas; the Tree, the Six Spheres, the Five Lakes, 
and the Altar. 
Explanation of the Symbols on a Pra Patha, or Impression of the 
Divine Foot. 
No, 1. 
Chakkrdné, which term implies the two Chakkras. In the Siamese 
book Lai Ldk, the worshipper is directed to lift his folded hands before his 
face, and audibly to recite the sacred emblems, beginning thus: ‘ Here is 
the Krong Chak, with its sharp spikes, and gloriously resplendent.” 
It is further described in the Chakkasot. This emblem, it is well known, 
is familiar to the Brahmans as the discus of the gods, used by them in their 
wars, and by such happy mortals as by an unwearied pursuit of virtue have 
attained to that holy state termed in the Bali éthi watto. 
* Plate III. 
