A paper about the attitudes of Buud'r.a irr/xee-
in the Siamese monasteries was written by th-r S--r.it--'
Phra Paramanujit, the son of tiie Kin2 Phra Buddha
Yot Fa i who died in A.D. 1554). Tiiis paper has been
translated into English by Dr. O. Frankfurter, Ph.
D.1

The Si'imese literature contains iiiarv vrjrks
haseri on Indian legends. We have JRama-^ un or
the Raoiayana in Siamese, Other books are :—

(n Weivasitnijiii—>vbich gives the story of a
king, who became an ascetic after contemplation of
a withered tree,

(2) Worawigs—it relates the tale of a Prince
how he fell in love with a princess, but was finally
killed by a magic spear which was meant to guard
her.

(3) Chalawan—gives the story of a Princess,
who was loved by a crocodile.

(4) Phumhon—similarly tells how a Princess
was loved by an elephant.

(5) Prang Tong—relates how a princess even
before her birth was promised to a yak (yaksa)in return
for some fruit given by that yak for her mother.

(6) Nok Khum—narrates the theory of the
origin of man-kind. It shows how man was born out
of the egg of Nok Khum=Harnsa.

Besides this legendary literature, we hare in
Siam, Kiti literature, The term Niii perhaps comes

The Attitudes of Buddha, J.S.S. X, II, 1913,