104 Captain James Low on Bupp a and the Phrabdt. 
No. 43. 
Usubho. This is the Kho usuparat of the Siamese, or the king of the 
white cattle of Hemawa.* 
No. 44. 
Next is the Mé K,ho of the Siamese. It most probably alludes to the 
Hindu “cow of plenty,” wihch descended from the abode of Inpra, and re- 
mained with the Rishi, or holy man, Jemapacni, until she was forced, by 
the audacity of an impious prince, who attacked the Rishi with an army, to 
seek again the bright abode from which she had descended. 
This cow, which is also Kamapeva, or the goddess of love, is in unison, 
according to Maurice, with the symbolical representation of Isis. It may, 
perhaps, allude to Banuta of the Ztahacas, to whom the fourth day of Aswint 
is sacred ; and by whom images of her with her calf are still worshipped.* 
The cow is not held peculiarly sacred in Siam; for the natives, unlike 
their Budd hist brethren in Ceylon, will eat beef as readily as any other sort 
of animal food, provided it is killed for them. ‘The sin lies in killing an 
animal, not in using it for food: and there are few animals, or even rep- 
tiles, not absolutely unwholesome, which do not suit the taste of the Indo- 
Chinese people. The Siamese are not prohibited by their religion the use 
of spirituous liquors; and from experience I can affirm, that they are very 
prone to indulge in them when they can be cheaply and easily obtained. 
Brandy and English malt liquor they prize exceedingly ; but the poverty 
* Mr. H. T. Colebrooke informs us, that a bull is the characteristic mark of the first deified 
saint of the Jainas, whose name was RisHasHa. He is the bull of Isoura or Iswara, Apis 
or Ap, the “Golden Bull:” and we learn from Mr. Maurice, that the white bull of Srva cor- 
responds to that bull which is the emblem of Osrnis, and is sacred to him. It seems also, that 
the ancient Britons used to sacrifice the bull, like the Aswamedha Jug, or horse-sacrifice of 
India; the Druids on the Ist of April (a) being accustomed to immolate two white bulls which 
had never known the yoke. 
+ Asiatic Researches, vol. vii. 
(a) In this month, April, the sun enters Taurus; but the idea of Sol in Tauro was derived 
by the Druids from their Brahman progenitors, and from them it decends to the Romans. 
In the next month the English May-pole was erected, which we can scarcely doubt, with 
reference to the religion of which it formed a part, was a Phaillic emblem. The Hindus erect a 
May-pole on the same day. The Druids on the Ist of April kindled fires, typical of the solar ray. 
