466 Captain Cuarman on the City of Anardjapura 
ing flowers are among the favourite offerings to Bupp’Ha, and in the 
more distant parts, with coco-nut and palmyra, among which two mutilated 
statues of Bupp’Ha lie neglected on the ground. The building is called the 
Bo Malloa, the trees the Bo tree. I neglected to take any sketch of the 
temple itself, but fortunately one was subsequently made by Mr. Cameron, 
one of the Commissioners of Colonial inquiry, which has already been 
lithographed, and conveys an accurate idea of its character. 
The entrance to the temple is by a building which also faces to the north.* 
In front of this building is a flight of steps, having as balustrades slabs of 
hard blue granite, which are elaborately and beautifully sculptured, and 
of which a sketch was taken.t Between this building and the enclosure 
is a court, at the end of which, and forming an entrance to it, is a second 
building of similar character. At the foot of the steps to this second building, 
and let into the ground, is a very remarkable slab of hard blue granite : it is 
semicircular, and sculptured in rings or bands of different widths. Some of 
the patterns are scrolls equal in beauty to any thing Grecian; one consists of 
the Hansa or Brdhmana duck, bearing the root of the lotus in its bill; and 
the most curious has figures of the elephant, the horse, the lion, and the 
cow, which are repeated in the same order, and sculptured with great spirit 
and accuracy of outline. Of this there is also a sketch,t but it will only 
convey a faint idea of the beauty of the original. 
These comprise the principal memoranda which relate to this temple. I 
shall now proceed to make a few remarks, and to point out some references 
which are connected with it. 
The reverence in which the Bogaha is held by the Buddhists in 
Ceylon, is attributed either to his having received his divine nature 
under one of these trees, or to his having been in the habit of sitting 
beneath it when meditating; there is also a popular tradition in Ceylon, that 
“ when Bupp’sa came to the island, it was over-run by demons and evil 
spirits, who opposed him with all their might and power; that becoming 
weak and weary, he sat down under a Bogaha, and fell asleep ; that a tremen- 
dous storm of thunder and rain came on, and that the devils thought to take 
advantage of it to surprise him; but, when they came to the spot where he 
still slept, they found not only that the tree had protected him from rain, but 
that a cobra-de-capella had spread its hood above his head, and was watching 
* See Plate, No. 16. + See Plate, No. 17. t See Plate, No. 17. 
