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the grateful descendants of Noau: and this astronomical idea travelled 
from east to west. Among the Burman and Siamese constellations the ship is 
conspicuous; but they have borrowed the notion from Pali writings. A boat 
is the type of the earth; the Hindu Argha, the cymbrum of the Egyptians, 
the symbol of the Yoni. In the Argha, offerings of fruits and flowers are 
made. It is found at the portals of Buddhist monasteries in Ava-Thdi. 
Iswara is called Arncua Naru, or “lord of the ship ;” and Osiris, according 
to Plutarch, was commander of the Argo. The Ossa Navicularis, which 
was carried by eighty men at Egyptian solemnities; and the mystical boat, 
the cap of the sun, in which Hercules, they say, traversed the ocean. The 
Pura Cuanox of the Siamese was shipwrecked, and swam for seven days and 
seven nights on the waves. 
Noau is the second Menu, or Nun, of the Sanscrit; and, in the character 
of a Buddha, prophesied of the deluge. The first Menu, or Apam, is 
termed by the Siamese TjzaG Manu; and there were many of the 
same who successively tenanted the earth at each of those periods after it 
had been renovated ; or more strictly, according to their ideas, after the 
total destruction of the old, and the production of the new world. (Vide 
No. 23.) 
The Siamese, therefore, call the descendants of these Menus, Manusa or Ma- 
nutsa. They say that in Nawa were seven kinds of Kéo or precious stones ; 
which is only a figurative mode of expressing any thing superlatively excel- 
lent. These seven jewels are therefore the sons of Noau, who entered with him 
into the ark, and who are termed by the Hindus the seven Zéshi, or holy men. 
In the Bali Milinda is a list of seven precious stones, or things, possessed 
by Barommacuak Ka. These are, 
1st. A Chakra, or discus, from the Maha Samutd,ho, or great ocean. 
2d. The diamond elephant, whose lineage can be traced from the great 
Cuatr jan, king of elephants. 
3d. The diamond horse from the hill Bunlabanp hot. 
4th. The Mani, or great jewel. This was supposed by Wilford to mean 
the loadstone. 
5th. The diamond princess, from the northern quarter of the world, or 
Uttarahéro. 
6th. A prime minister from Bup,hawité, another quarter of the world. 
7th. A general from Jambu Dwipa. In the history of Ligor, it is noticed 
expressly that the relics of BuppHa were, on some particular occasion, 
