Captain James Low on Bupp Ma and the Phrabat. 123 
Pura Surtya, the sun. Lieut.-Colonel Tod notices, in his Account of Mewar, 
that the Celtic Apollo had his shrines at Carnac in Britany, and was called Carneus, 
or sun god. In Jamieson’s Scottish Dictionary, under the head Neid Fyre, it is 
noticed, that the ancient Druids superintended the ceremony of raising a sacred fire 
annually on the first day of May. That day is still, both in the Gaelic and Irish 
dialects, called La-beal-tin, i.e. the day of Baal’s fire, or the fire dedicated to Baal 
or the sun. 
Worship of the Tiger and Dog. Lieut.-Colonel Tod notices that in India the dog 
is not deified, although he is sacred to Buarrawa, the elder twin son of Katica, and 
the god of battle. This deity is sculptured riding on a dog with the martial horn, 
napairi, in one hand, and the damru, or small drum, in the other. 
Lions and Tridents. Siva, or Marta his consort, is in every battle riding on a 
lion and holding a trident. 
Elephants. Yen Barua (see English translation) tells us, that the kings of Ceylon 
formerly (neaning before his time) found white elephants on the island. 
The Phrabdt, or Foot. Without Damascus, saith Inn Baruta, on the way of the 
pilgrimage, is the “ Mosque of the Foot, which is held in great estimation, and in 
which there is a stone having upon it the print of the foot of Moses.”* On this 
passage the translator very aptly remarks, that “ there can be no doubt, I think, that 
these marks of the foot, whether we find them at Damascus, in Ceylon, amongst the 
Burmese, at Mecca, or wherever else, are nothing more than remains of Buddhism.” 
Ibn Barura further notices, that “ Anu Apputtan Isn Kuatir first got permission 
from the prince of the division of Ceylon nearest to the Foot (on Adam’s Peak), to 
open a road to it for the benefit of pilgrims; and that at a former period the Chinese 
went to Ceylon and cut out from the stone the place of the great toe, together with the 
stone about it, and placed it in a temple in the city of Zaitoon, and pilgrimages are 
made to it from the most distant parts of China.” 
In Burkhardt’s Travels in Arabia the Mecca stone is described, on which, it is 
said, is the impression of the foot of Ibrahim, or Abraham, made when he was 
erecting the Kabaa; but that no Hadji has ever seen it, as it is railed in and 
covered. 
The Altar. On reading Burkhardt’s minute account of the Kabaa at Mecca, it 
seems to me very probable that it is merely an altar on a large scale, fashioned after 
that which the idolater’s temple (which in ancient times occupied the site of the Kabaa) 
contained. ‘This Kabaa, he informs us, was supposed to have been framed orginally 
in heaven. A considerable analogy would also appear to exist between the shape, con- 
struction, and ornaments of the tabernacle and altar described in Exodus, and of those 
of the Kabaa. In the Sacred Writings it was forbidden to make steps up to the altar, 
* The Rey. Professor Lee’s Translation, published by the Oriental Translation Committee, p. 30. 
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