92 Captain James Low on Bupp Ma and the Phrabat. 
Chalatahana, descriptive of the wife of a priest who conceived by tasting 
the water used for his ablutions, Asucua Pana, or Isi SencxHa Tapassa, 
who was a holy man. It happened that a cow drank of the water in which 
he had been performing ablutions, or of his urine, and brought forth a 
monster resembling the Rishés, but having a goodly front of horns, and 
possessing, moreover, the power of doing things unattainable by mankind. 
Narepara Pasana, Suwanna Sama, KoniaBanpeta, son of a grandee, 
left his father’s country with his wife Patexa ; and, being a holy person, 
did not cohabit with her; but as he chafed her body with his hand, 
agreeably to the desire of Inpra, disguised as a Brahman, she conceived, 
and brought forth a son, whose name is famous as being one of the states 
of the metempsychosis, through which Pura PuurpHa passed previous to 
his last appearance. 
T hatsana; handmaids of a king, who, by merely looking at him, became 
pregnant. 
Satt,ha ; certain fowls, which, hearing the male crow, had eggs generated 
within them, which were afterwards hatched without the intervention of the 
male: also certain cranes which heard thunder, and from its effects alone 
laid eggs, and hatched them. 
Kand ha ; a cow which scented a bull from afar, and became with calf. 
Manitsa. Here follows, in the Milinda, an account of mankind, said 
to be the descendants of the famous Manu, the Tuau Manu of the Siamese, 
who are endowed with reasoning faculties above all animals. He is the 
SwayamBuiva of India; the Fo-ne of China; the Atonts of the Chaldeans; 
and the Prorocones of Egypt. 
Bupp a is also by the Hindus supposed to have been the son of Arri, 
named Iza, daughter of Vatvaswart, or Menu. 
Mawu seems to be a name for Apam. He is also called Kastyapa by 
some, which is the term applied to him by the Hindus, who assert that he 
was the first of the seven Rishis, who sprung from Branma, according to 
Wilford.* The Siamese say he came from the Pkrammaloke, which is the 
same thing. 
His wives, according to the Bali, were Avirf, the virtuous, and Diri, the 
vicious, being, apparently, similar to the ancient good and evil principles of 
the Persians. 
Mankind in the Siamese, as well as the Burman cosmography, become 
extinct at the destruction of a world. They are reproduced by the 
* Asiatic Researches, vol. vi. 
