108 Captain James Low on Bupp ma and the Phrabdt. 
The twenty-first Jaina deified mortal has a nilot pala, or blue water lily, 
for his peculiar emblem.* 
The beauty of this Indian plant, together with its fecundity, must, under 
any circumstances, have rendered it an attractive object. The Siamese 
affect it in the architecture, and represent BuppMa seated upon it. It is 
an ornament to all their temples, while it is an object of terror in hell, where, 
changing to a metal, it is supposed to catch the guilty on its sharp spikes; and 
an object of hope to the soul not pressed down by exceedingly heavy guilt, 
which it supports above the fiery abyss in its then wide expanded cup. 
Each individual of the Chinese Triad, as observed in a temple in Pinang, 
is seated Jike Brauma on a lotus flower. 
No. 49. 
Rattang Palang. The boadéng or red lotus of the Siamese. The sixth 
deified mortal of the Jainas, called Papma PrAsna, was of a red colour, and 
had a lotus for his mark.t 
No. 50. 
Sitapalang. This is the boa of the Siamese ; a flower of the lotus class. 
No. 51. 
Mora Piichang, or Pincha. The tail feathers of a peacock. It is not 
to be wondered at that this bird, dazzling as is his plumage to the sight, 
should have, in the first instance, been regarded with pleasure, and after- 
wards with reverence, when he had been consecrated as an attendant on 
the gods. The bird of Juno has its parallel in, and was, perhaps, the 
offspring of eastern mythology. It is depicted along with statues of Inpra, 
and bears on its back the Indian Juno. Cartikeya-Crisuna, that stealer 
of the fluttering hearts of the lovely gopis, or milkmaids, wore on his head 
a peacock plume. 
At the present day this bird is held sacred in India; and those which are 
in the woods round temples are considered as consecrated to the divinities 
whose statues adorn their interior. ‘The humanity of the British legislature 
* Mr. H. T. Colebrooke, Asiatic Researches.—The Jainas, according to Maurice, worshipped 
the lotus because it was the product of water, supposed esse inttium rerum. 
+ Asiatic Researches, vol. v. 
