96 Captain James Low on Bupp ma and the Phrabdt. 
it up, and have ever since had forked tongues.* The Seshandga, or prince 
of the serpents, is also said to tenant the southern hemisphere, or nether 
world. 
The serpent was also called the Malignant Serpent; the Evil Genius ; 
the Dragon of the Hesperides, and the Polar Dragon; and Azacua, the 
principle of good and evil, was represented by two serpents contending for 
the mundane egg. The king of the Assis, in Hindu mythology, was also 
the prince of the Ndgds, or snakes. 
The serpent was, moreover, a symbol of the sun, and of renovescent 
vigour ; and, in the Siamese representations of Meru, he is the zone of the 
world, or the equinoctial belt. On other occasions, when figured swallowing 
his tail, he is the type of eternity. There was also the Sancua Muxx HA, 
who. was a serpent king, and whose mouth resembled a shell. Serpents 
engendered of a woman guarded the Amrita at Inpra’s palace. Lacusmi 
was another serpent. The Druids also had their adder or snake; and the 
many allusions to serpents in the sacred writings need not here be enlarged 
upon. 
Mirura has his serpent. Osiris is said to have combated with the serpent 
Pytnon; and Crisuna, in like manner, with the great snake Karr NaGa. 
Syria had an egg and serpent in its mythology ; and Phcenicia had one, 
which was depicted climbing up trees, and entwining round pillars + 
Greece most probably borrowed from some of these countries the serpent, 
which, conjoined with a lion, formed the compound symbol of Hrercu es. 
The Cyeru, or Acatuo Diamon, or good spirit, has a snake for his 
emblem. 
* In the preface to the Phra Pathama, the Siamese work already quoted, Rasa NaGa’s brother 
is represented as having secreted the Mani, or inestimable jewel. He is followed by a priest of 
Lanca to Meru; where, finding him asleep with his mouth wide open, he speedily regains the 
precious treasure. 
The Indian Parus Nauth, the deified mortal, has generally five expanded Jaina serpents’ hoods 
to point him out.—Lieut.-Colonel Francklin on Serpent Worship. 
+ Asiatic Researches, Maurice, and other writers, 
{ It has also been discovered by Wilson, that in the temple of Ipsambul, in Nubia, the serpent 
is represented climbing round a tree. And, in a drawing in my possession of the incarnations of 
Bupp,nA, he is pourtrayed as a snake climbing up a pyramid. 
The serpent is found depicted in Javanese temples, according to the late Sir S. Raffles.— 
History of Java, 
