100 Captain James Low on Bupp a and the Phrabdat. 
“The Hemawa range has 84,000 peaks. Their height (that of the 
greatest we may suppose) is 150 yojanas ; their breadth 3,000; and their 
length the same number.” We cannot reconcile this to reason, if we take 
the yqjana at what is generally considered its lowest computed length, viz. 
nine miles. The Burman computation, at this rate, is still more extra- 
vagant. ‘They assert, as Sangermano tells us, that Hemavunta is 500 
yganas in perpendicular height, and 9,000 in circumference, with 14,000 
small mountains piled one upon another. The height here given from the - 
Milinda corresponds with that stated in the Ratana Kalapa. 
No. 30. 
Satta Maha Sara, in Siamese Sa Yai Chet, or the seven great lakes of 
Himala, abounding in every variety of the lotus or water-lily, and filled with 
wonderful fishes. Their shores are fringed with flowers of exquisite fragrance 
and brilliant hues: while the forests are tenanted by the rarest and most 
formidable species of animals. Below a wide-spreading tree, in these 
regions, lives the mighty Elephant King, who has a retinue of 8,000 
followers, elephants like himself, and of four different colours. His wives 
are three in number, viz. Ist. Mana Supatsa; 2d. Macnéma Supatsa; and 
3d. Cuumia Supatsa. These were, no doubt, either queens, or perhaps 
kings at some former period: for it may be remarked, that spirits migrate 
into etther sex after death. Sangermano tells us, the Burmans suppose that 
from the seven lakes of Hemavunta spring five rivers; the chief of these 
lakes being Anonddt. The Burman and Siamese geography of Himala is 
nearly the same. 
In the Ratana Kalapa is noticed a great lake called Sidhantara, in which 
nothing will swim. 
No. 81. 
Pancha Maha Nathi (or Nadi). These are the five rivers arising out of 
the seven lakes. 
The Burmans say that the Maha Nadi flow past Arracan. The Sanscrit 
sacred rivers are the Ganges, the Indus, the Sanpu, and Sitaganga. Mr. 
Colebrooke remarked, that the country of Jangama lies about midway 
betwixt the Malayan Peninsula and Verendra ; and that the Brahma Cunda, 
from which issues the Brahme Putra, is the same as the lake Chiamay of 
De Banos and other Portuguese writers. 
