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in old Ava, confifting of one folid block of pure white 

 alabafter, and in a fitting pofture: I had no oppoitiw 

 nity of meafuring its dimenfions; but its fingers ap- 

 peared to me to be about the length and thicknefs of 

 a large mans' thigh and leg, i^rom whence aconjedurc 

 may be made of the immenfity of the whole. 



Another objeft of great veneration among the 

 worfliippers of Godama are ftones of confiderable di- 

 menfions, carved with various hieroglyphics, and faid 

 to reprefent, or to be the impreffions of his feet. The 

 hieroglyphics, on the different ftones which I faw, 

 were not alike. In the Burma language thefe ftones 

 are called Kye do bura, or the refpe6lable royal foot. 

 One of them, on the mountain AmalaSaripadi, * in 

 the ifland of Ceylon, has given rife to various fables.; 

 Chrijtians, Jews, and Mahommedans, uniting to call 

 the mountain AoAM's-pcak, and the (tone the im- 

 preffions of ADAM's-foot. 



Besides thefe objefcls of adoration, there are many 

 images common about the religious buildings of the 

 Burmas. Theprincipal difciplesof Godama, eipeciallv 

 his two favourites, Mqkela and Saribout, with many 

 other perfons, who alBfted the god when on earth, are 

 by his followers confidered as faints: and many images 

 of thefe faints, dreffed likei?^AJw5, generallyaccompany 

 thofe of their mafter. Mokela and Saribout oc- 

 cupy the moft confpicuous places, the one fitting on 

 the right hand, and the other on the left of Godama, 

 The images of the other faints are generally in the 

 pofture of adoration. In fome chapels there are 

 many images of thefe faints, without any of the divi- 

 nity. There is a group of female figures very com- 

 mon at the temples : it reprefents a princefs with her 

 attendants : the princefs is on her knees offering up 

 her long hair. It is faid, that once, when Godama 

 was like 'to pcrifh in a river, he was faved by this 



U 4 princefs, 



* Stephens's tranfladon of Faria y Souza, T. 2. p. .j.c.i9,p3r. 25, 



