74: Captain James Low on Bupp a and the Phrabdt. 
A jar is the characteristic mark of MA, the nineteenth Jaina god, or 
deified saint; as cited from native authorities by Mr. Colebrooke, in his 
learned observations on the Jainas. The Sacti followers, according to Mr. 
Patterson,* designate the jar Cumbh, G’hata, (which, inthe Hindu zodiac, is 
the name of the sign Aquarius), by this mark, <—; the Vaishnavas by 
this, eb: and the Saivas by this, ¥X: the female principles, or Sacti, by 
this Wee 
The Siamese Aquarius is Rahu, and his sign is a double triangle. This 
last mark is called 7% liu p,het by the Siamese, and occurs frequently on 
their standards. 
The vase is an emblem of the five elements. The priests of Egypt 
carried the sacred vase in their processions; and it was carried with great 
pomp at the consecration of a Budd hist temple, in which instance it con- 
tained the venom of snakes, to be used as a charm against the malignant 
spirits which were supposed ready to destroy the newly-erected edifice. 
The vase appears on a sculptured slate in the wall of a modern temple at 
Sirohee. (Vide Plate in Lieut.-Colonel Francklin’s account of the Jeynes 
and Buddhists.) The triangle is symbolical of Visanu and Prit,rvi, and 
of the Parca, or Energies, three in one; Tricala, Devi, Eumara (Vesta, 
Minerva, and Morta). They sit in a triangle, on Triczita, in the infernal 
regions, according to Tuesrrsius ;t and the double triangle x represents 
their powers combined. Perhaps this vase represents that which was used 
to contain the goddess Lacsum1 when brought down from heaven by 
powerful spells. 
No. 4. 
Bunnang ; or, according to the Siamese, K,hontho. It represents a water 
jar, which Bupp,Ha is supposed to have had when he was Prd Sid,hatta, 
before attaining to Nivdn. 
Perhaps either this, or the foregoing emblem, refers to the hallowed vase 
from which (according to Maurice) Noau poured out libations of generous 
wine; or to the vase of Hercutes, by some supposed to allude to the 
compass: because Hercutes is imagined to have travelled towards every 
* Asiatic Researches, vol. viii. p. 77. + Ibid. vol. xi. p. 113. 
