424 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [November, 1913. 
inscriptions of Adityasena and Jivita Gupta II published by Dr. 
Fleet in his Corpus, Vol. III. The letters TA, THA, VA, GA, 
DHA, HA agree with those in Adityasena’s Aphsad stone and 
Shapur image inscriptions; while the ‘ MA’ agrees with that in 
Jivita Gupta’s Deo-Baranark s 
The rest of the characters, which I did not gather from the 
tablets as I could not make any sense of them, appear akin to 
the same inscription. For instanceit may be noted that ‘‘YA’’, 
the first letter in the second line, *‘ LA’’, the third letter count- 
ing from the right side in the sixth line of the large fragment, and 
VI, PU, LA, the three letters occurring after two letters in the 
second line of the small fragment, conform to those characters 
ia the said inscription. Moreover the mode of affixing vowels 
to tir terest agrees throughout with that of the said 
: : 
nscriptions. B. B. BrpyaBINoD. 
2. Note on clay tablets from caves near Moulmein.' 
(Plate XX), 
This representation of Gotama seems to be peculiar to the 
Burmese, the Shans and the Siamese. It is called in Burma 
a ‘‘Zabupade’’; it always represents the Buddha in full regal 
dress; the head-dress is often, as in these tablets, a three-tiered 
crown surmounted by a pointed ornament; on both sides, 
attached to the crown, are appendages or wings; from the large 
holes in the lobes of the ears depend two ear ornaments the 
ends of which touch the shoulders, both arms have large arm- 
lets; the dress appears to be richly embroidered, with side 
ornaments at the shoulders. 
It is called Zabupade (Pali: Jambupati) because, it is said, 
there was once in India a king, Jambupati by name, exceed- 
ingly proud and fond of rich dress; the Buddha, to curb his 
pride and vanity, assumed miraculously a regal dress in com- 
parison with which the king’s was simplicity itself, and preached 
to him a sermon on the vanity of the things of this world. 
It is to commemorate this event that the Buddha is thus 
represented. 
sence of Shan or t ntry. 
These tablets appear to be not earlier than the 18th ce™ 
A.D. 
tury C. DuRotsELLe. 
sei ils SOS Ne ee es oe 
! The specimen figured, which is now in the Indian Museum, is #ro™ 
the Buddha Cave at Dhammathat and not, asstated on the plate, from the 
m Caves. The specimen found in the Farm Caves bore the sam 
design, but was broken in two an was more strongly weathered. 
