86 Captain James Low on Buppa and the Phrabdt. 
monious sounds are produced, that the gods themselves stoop to snapaie 
forgetting even the delights of Sawdn (heaven). 
The girth of the trunk is fifteen yojanas ; and the height to the first 
branch is fifty yojanas. It has four branches, directed to the four cardinal 
points, each being fifty yojanas long. 
When the fruit depending from the northern branch ripens, it falls into 
the Northern Ocean, and becomes food for fishes. 
When the fruit of the southern branch ripens, and falls to the ground in 
the regions of Hemap,hanta (Himalaya), it is turned into silver. 
The hill Hemap,hanta is, in height, 500 yojanas ; in breadth, 1,000; and 
in length the same. 
When the fruit of the western branch drops off, it becomes gold. 
The fruit of the eastern branch is, on falling, changed into diamonds and 
other gems. 
«“ The mighty Meru rests on a foundation 84,000 yojanas below the 
surface of the waters of the great ocean. These waters rest on air.” 
From Meru, which seems to represent the pole of the earth, to the great 
Dwipas, in the four quarters of the world, the distance is respectively 
10,000 ygyanas; and from these respectively to the lesser surrounding 
Dwipas, 2,000 yojanas. 
The earth, in another part of the Milinda, is thus noticed; and the 
notice does not much differ from Sangermano’s account of the Burman 
Cosmographia : 
« Its diameter Shea ae oo 900,000 yojanas. 
« Its thickness Sak a ath 240,000 ditto. 
«One half of this is Sila, or rock, and 
the rest pat,hawi, or earth and water. 
“ The water, in depth, is .,. one 480,000 ditto. 
‘©The air ... ditto a8 fits 960,000 ditto. 
«* Beneath, all is a vacuum.” 
The Burmans say the earth is 1,203,400 yojanas in diameter; and its 
circumference, which is bounded by high mountains, thrice its diameter. 
No. 20. 
Maha Samut,ho. The great sea already described. Prd Samur is the 
Siamese god of the ocean. Borun is his Hindu title. 
