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of the mass of the people luckily prevents their becoming habitual 
drunkards. A regard to character has also great weight with most of 
them ; so that however disposed to excess they may really be, they are in 
the main, as far as actions speak, a temperate people. 
The Hindu festival of Buavanr is also held in Siam by the keepers of 
cattle. It occurs in their fifth month, or Duun-hd, and on their new year’s 
day. 
The cow is not used in the decoration of Siamese temples. We learn 
from Captain M‘Kenzie’s account of Ceylon, that the figure of the Lingam, 
the Cow, and every other object of Hindu veneration, were purposely re- 
moved from a Buddhist temple which he visited there. 
The cow was one of the sacred things which were produced by churning 
the ocean with the mountain Mandar, 
The Druids on the Ist of April gathered the sacred misletoe, and immo- 
lated a white heifer: and I find, in the Ligorian history, mention is made of a 
cow which licked up the ashes of Bupp,a after his body had been burned ; 
and whose dung a Brahman who followed her collected, and rubbed over his 
body ; and cow-dung was ever after esteemed in some measure sacred.* 
No. 45. 
Wechaka. That Lokk,ho, This is the calf. 
No, 46. 
Nawa, the ship. The Siamese term is Tap,haz t,hdng, or the golden ship. 
This emblem points directly to the ark of Nun, or Noan, which, accord- 
ing to Sanscrit records, rested after the flood on Chaisachan ; in the vicinity 
of which hills the inhabitants were Buddhists. It also has reference to the 
ninth incarnation of Visunu, as Bupp HA. 
Bali records allude not only generally to the destruction of the world, at 
various periods, by water, but particularly to the partial flood which 
deluged Champ,hu t,hipé, or Jambu Dwipa (the earth), rising four thousand 
yojanas above its surface. 
The masts and hull of this vessel, in the Hindu system, are typical of the 
Linga and Yoni. The Noachic ark was also raised to the celestial sphere by 
* It is well known that cow dung is profusely used by the Hindus of the present day, both as 
a personal unguent, and as a purificatory wash for their house-floors and temples. 
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