XXXtV MISCELLANEOUS NOTICBS &C. 
The sentence commencing', “ Bot P,hra Ayak&n &c., i5 p. 332 is 
incorrectly translated. Notwithstanding- some errors in transcrip¬ 
tion, I can make it out and the proper rendering is “ This collec¬ 
tion of the laws was given to me, a soldier of I 113 Highness Duke 
Indra wongsa, when he came forth with an army to attack Mergui 
and Tennasserim in the year 1596.’* 
Here I may remark that the Siamese have a civil and a sacred era, 
the latter being that of Budhism. The Budhist era, has now reach¬ 
ed the 2399—and consequently differs from the Christian era 551 
years. The civil era called Chun la Sakkardt has reached 1209, 
and therefore differs from our era 638 or 9 years. The Siamese 
year commences in April, hence in the same year there may be said to 
be a difference of a year. Thus the Siamese civil year now current is 
1209, but after the middle of April, it will he 1210. These sub¬ 
tracted from 1848 will leave respectively 638 or 639. Hence the 
year 1596 in the preceeding date will be equal to A. D. 957-8 in¬ 
stead of 1055 as Col. Low has it. 
On p. 333, about the middle, the title of one of the Siamese legal 
books is given as “ Bai Set.” It may be an error of the press or an 
incorrect reading of the manuscript The proper title is Bet Set. 
Reference is also made at the bottom of the same page to Trai f 
Phtim, or “ the three worlds—Earth, Heaven, and Nip,hand* Now 
Niphan is not one of the three worlds, nor a world at all. Its pro¬ 
per meaning is destruction, termination , finale, and it is employed 
to denote a state of utter extinction , as of a candle extinguished 
which can never be relighted. All being is considered as in a pro¬ 
cess of perpetual transmigration and change supposed always to be 
connected with suffering—the only full termination of which is Nip¬ 
han the proper completment in three worlds is hell—of which accor¬ 
ding to Budhist ideas, a very copious description is given in Trai 
Phum. 
P. 335 Chau Toan should be Chau Suan, the u and a in the lat¬ 
ter word pronounced as the same letters in the Malay word tuan — 
when addressed by a servant to his master. 
Some most singular and extravagant interpolations must have 
