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to have been conferred on Buddha by five Devatta Patitha-tha, whose 

 names are given in the Milinda Raja. 



Otn. — The all-powerful invocation which was framed by the mighty 

 Indra and Sri Rama and the divine Bevattas of all degrees for the use 

 of man in his several occupations and perplexities. 



A. U. M., according to the Asiatic Researches* is Vishnu, Siva, and 

 Brahma or Brahme. It is the everliving of the ancient Tartars, f 



Faber notices of this celebrated triliteral word that it thus occurs 

 om-phic-al, or the oracle of the Solar God, which the Greeks changed 

 into om-pha-lus, and the Latins into umbilicus. £ I have alluded further 

 on to this enigmatical triliteral, in connexion with the worship of the 

 sun as the great first Cause and supporter of life throughout the whole 

 of animated nature, according to the ancient Persians. 



Invocations. 



May the beneficent and powerful throughout the three worlds, 

 heaven, earth, and hell, namely, the glorious Indra or Ph'ant'ha, and 

 Narai or Sri Rama, with all the good and benignant inferior deities 

 give efficacy to their own potent invocation for the attainment of our 

 present desire. 



And thou Sri Sarap'hat, who art Buddha or Samana Khatama, and 

 art now in the enjoyment of heavenly rest, who art purified from, and 

 exalted above, every earthly affection, who when called upon, art omni- 

 present, who knowest all hearts, who alone possesses the power and 

 privilege of walking upon the waves of the ocean, who nicely discri- 

 minateth betwixt good and evil, virtue and vice. And ye inferior 

 Devattas who adore Buddha T'harani, and thou, O Iswara [P'ho pen 

 chau, of the Siamese, or literally " man become Lord~] who established 

 or made the heavens and the earth and all that is in them." 



Who also framed the equinoctial line [typified by a threefold thread 

 or platted line, and which is used to encircle a new building or a ship 

 to consecrate it]. 



* Vol. V. p— . 



t Key to Hindu Chronology. 



% Faber's Cabin, Vol. I. p. 66. 



