194 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. |[N.S., XV, 
(Main shrine). From this we may deduce that the present monas- 
tery, as a who le, together with its accessories has been meant 
by the expression Sangam Dharmacakram. Again, Mr. A. 
Maitra, the founder of the Varendra Research Society, is of 
ra that the Dharmacakra Symbol, which formerly surmoun- 
the lion capital of Asoka, and of which fragments are now 
sorta in the Sarnath Museum,! is the exact object which is 
t 
ancient days and we find the same sins on the Asoka pillar 
at Safichi. Therefore nothing can be said with certainty as to 
which object was exactly repaired—the whole monastery or ca 
Asoka Pillar. It is not belie that the whole monastery wa 
under repairs along with the repairs of the Dharmarajika 
pecan as the monastery, the Gandha-Kiti and the Dharma- 
rajika were all in a ruinous condition. The Pala brothers, it 
is also 
noteworthy in this connexion that no trace of repair can now 
be noticed on the pustane of the Asoka Pillar 
Satna-G I = yp. Hultsz, Dr. 
Vogel and Dr. Venis have offered various interpretations of this 
expression. Of these, Dr. Venis’ is the latest. After having 
own the impossibility of expounding the compound as the 
Gandha Kuti erected of stone, brought from eight great places, on 
the ground of Sanskrit grammar, he suggested ‘the 
pretation: “ Shrine is made of stone and in the shrine are or to it 
belong eight great places Sateen 9 oo A rding to the rules of 
Sanskrit grammar, this compound can be no other than the 
ayaye-wify gare. Then, of course, he component parts would 
be :—ggaeraraeq (or fear) Teaager.? We shall consider now 
if this interpretation suits the topography of Sarnath and holds 
good on other grounds.* It appears to me that the word “ Saila 
Gandhakutt”’ here doubtless refers to the Main Shrine of to-day, 
for architectural characteristics of the 12th century A.D. are 
traceable in the ruins and the style of this buskditig. The word 
Gandhakuti has been discussed elsewhere.® Again, the — 
! Sir John Marshall’s Annual aa. A.S., 1904-5, p. 36. 
2 J.A.8.B., N.S., Vol. II, No. 9, p. 447. 
8 Cf. faranges Dagakumara Carita. 
argreaves, the Superintendent, Archeological Survey, in 
* Mr. Har 
letter to me expressed the view—‘‘ Its explanation, I am afraid, aut 
always areas dou btful.’’ 
vate poem of realy has been modi- 
used in a similar sense in Tibetan 
books—" ag-Sam-Jon-Zang” iy Sc. Das, p. 77. 
