480 Captain Cuapauan on the City of Anardjapura 
agency of the gods, and five hundred bricklayers were sent for, and were 
asked in what form they would build the tower; when one younger brick- 
layer “ proposed to send for a golden pot full of liquid, which was done ; 
then he took another quantity of liquid, which he threw against that in the 
pot, by which a bubble arose, which he said was to be the form of the 
tower.” The building being completed, the articles which were placed 
within the cupola are enumerated ; they consisted of a banyan-tree, having 
the bottom like unto coral, the stem and leaves of gold, and adorned with 
precious stones, &c. ‘ A golden figure of Bupnu, of the size of life; the 
nails, eyes, palms of the hands, soles of the feet, lips, hair, eye-brows, of 
precious stones, and the single hair on the forehead of silver.” Figures of 
several deities; amongst the number, BraumMa SAcANPATE, in attendance 
upon Bupp’xA ; and, finally, a series of “ images, representing how the Lord 
Bupnu had performed the office of Bodypoojat five hundred times,” &c. ; 
representing, in fact, all the events of Bupp’Ha’s life. 
When the workmanship was completed, a day was fixed on to deposit the 
ddti, and the priests were required to find the same. It is then stated that 
an eighth portion of dété had been conveyed to Ndga Loca, or the World 
of Snakes, where it was worshipped by them, and that it was predestined 
to be brought to Laccadiva to be lodged in Ruanwelli. A priest who had 
attained the quality of Rahat and was appointed to fetch the détu, pro- 
ceeded to the World of Snakes, ‘ passing out through the earth as a water- 
fowl that dives in a river,” and appeared before the king of the Snakes. ‘The 
king of the Snakes wished to keep the ddd, that he might offer it himself, 
and merit redemption from his worldly life, and might em future obtain the 
happiness of Nirvina; but although his nephew swallowed the box which 
contained. the relics, the priest took them from within him with an invisible 
hand and returned to Purdopirewana, “ passing out through the earth so 
speedily that a flame of fire set under a spider’s web would not have con- 
sumed it so quickly.” The placing of the ddété in the temple, which is the 
next ceremonial, is attended with much pomp and accompanied by many 
miracles :—‘ The boxes of relics borne by the king upon his head ascend 
up to heaven seven degrees, and are transformed into the natural shape of 
Bupuveighteen cubits in stature, brightening with six different coloured rays.” 
Now, the representation of Bupp’na, after having displayed many miraculous 
appearances, &c., at length vanished, and the relics returning of themselves 
into the box, descended upon the king’s head. ‘ Then the king wished 
