Captain James Low on Buppwa and the Phrabdat. 101 
It is now pretty well known that by Chiamay, properly Che-ung-mai, is 
strictly understood the capital of Northern Laos. A plan of the country 
in my possession, drawn by a native of Siam, who resided there some 
time, does not contain any lake; although such may exist. The river 
is here made to rise from a high range of hills abounding in hot 
springs. 
No. 32. 
Satta maha K hangk ha. The seven great rivers. The Siamese term them 
Mé nam yai chet, “the seven great waters.” These may either mean the 
the seven seas, or waters, lying betwixt the seven ranges of Meru; or they 
may allude to the seven Himalayan lakes. 
No. 33. 
Maha macha wanla muk ia Samut. This is the Siamese P/a Wan, or 
whale. Alluding, perhaps, to the god, who, in the shape of a fish, piloted 
the ark, or Nawa, to a place of safety. 
No. 34. 
Walahako. The Siamese Ma Phalahok, said to have been the famous 
horse of Himala; termed likewise the ‘“ Horse of the sky.” 
This seems to allude to the white horse of the Kali Avatar, which is 
yet tocome. We cannot help being struck with the coincidence of a white 
horse being also conspicuously described in Holy Writ. He figures: in 
Hindu chronology as the deity who watches over the seven [it ought, 
perhaps, to be eight, unless he himself forms the eighth] parts of the 
globe, which were guarded by the Avataras, or guardian angels.* 
Perhaps this is a type of the famous white horse of sacrifice at the Aswat 
meda Yug, or at the sanguinary rites of the Druids, who, according to 
Maurice, were obliged to substitute a white steer in place of so rare an 
animal, as the other then was, in Britain. 
The statue of the third Jaina deity, or SampjHawa, has the accompani- 
ment of a golden or white horse. 
In Siam a white horse is valued above all others. 
The horse’s mouth gives birth to a large river, according to the Siamese. 
* Key to Hindu Chronology. 
