260 ON THE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE 



Lavj. ' Vhay. 



It is from this nation that both Siamese and Bar- 

 mas allege that they derive their religion, laws, and 

 institutions. It is in the country o^ Lcko that all the 

 celebrated founders of the religion of Budd'ha are 

 represented to have left their most remarkable 

 vestiges. Ceylon boasts the sacred' traces of the left 

 foot of Budd"iia on tlie top of the mountain Amala- 

 Sri-padi, or Adains Peak. Siam exhibits the traces 

 of the right foot, on the top of the golden mountain 

 Swa-72a-bapato. Other traces of the sacred steps are 

 sparingly scattered over Pegu, Ji'a, and Arakan ; 

 but it is among the Laos, that all the vestiges of the 

 founders of this religion seem to be concentered, and 

 whither devotees repair to worship at the traces of 

 the sacred steps of Pra-Ku-ku-sbn, P ra-K6n-7id-k6n, 

 Pi^a-Put-fha-Kat-sop and Pra-Sa-mut-ta-ko-dom. 

 Tliese Siamese names of the four Budd'ha s seem to 

 correspond to the Barma Kaukasan, Gonagom, 

 Kasyapa, and Gotama, the -S'i/?^/?^/^, Kakusa'nda, 

 KoNAGAM, Kasyapa, and Gautama. There can 

 be no doubt, however, from the order of the names, 

 but that they are the four last Budd'has in the list 

 given by He'machandra Acha'rya in the Abhid'ha- 

 na ChiJitdmeiii, under the following Satiscrit appel- 

 lations, from which all these Siamese, Bayma, and 

 Sing'hala names, seem to be only Bali corruptions. 

 The Safiscrit names are Krukruchliunda, Kanckana, 



