448 REMARKS ON SOME ANTIQUITIES ON THE 



Mr. Mahony's paper, which could not be inferted 

 in the prefent volume of the Society's rci'earches, will 

 appear in the next : accompanied by Tome remarks from 

 Mr. Harington, who was at Columbo in the year 1797; 

 and has fubjoined the following hafty defcriptions, writ- 

 ten on the fpot, of two temples of Buddha; one fitu- 

 ated at Calanee, near Columbo ; the other near Caliture 

 and mentioned in the concluding paragraph of Captain 

 Mackenzie's paper. 



TEMPLE AT CALANEE. 

 February 7, 1797- — Vifited a temple of Buddha at 

 Calanee^ about (ix miles north eaft from Columbo. 1 ht£ 

 images are of ftone, nearly the fame as that at Boodb 

 Gya*, viz. A man in a fitting pofture, the riglit leg fup- 

 porting the left, and the right hand fupporting the left 

 hand. The right arm and bread uncovered ; the left 

 fide and the waift covered with a folding vcit, the end of 

 which hangs down before. The complexion fair, but 

 no conclufion can be drawn from this, or from-the fea- 

 tures, as two images in the two temples at this place dif- 

 fer confiderably in thefe refpe6ls ; one is a fair round 

 face, the other darker and more oval. Both agree in 

 long pendent ear rings, and crifpedhair ; but inftead of 

 a knot of the latter, as apparently reprefented on the 

 image at Boodb Gya, the heads of all the figures of Boodh 

 at C-alanee are crowned with a fort of tiara^ fomewhat 

 refembling a hand ; or rather five fingers joined to each 

 other, (called SeerafpooterJ.. In one of the temples three 

 images of the above defcription \Vene enclofed in aglafs 

 cafe, which the Gonni^ or officiating prielt, readily open- 

 ed to fatisfy my curiofity, and allowed me to approach 

 a* near as I wiihed, without even defiring me to take 

 oif my fhoes as uiiraily required in other ]iarts ot India-. 

 Before the cafe, which llood on the north lide of the 

 temple, and extended the whole leiigth> of iti was a 



^ A place near Gjio, in rlie province ».f Ilahar, where tlicre is a temple 

 of BoooH ; ai there alio ha^ been at /iHu'-c^/^teatdiK Btnarei. 



wooden 



