302 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. {Sept., 1915. 
The date of the sculptures seems to confirm this conclusion. 
On the evidence of style they may be safely ascribed to the 
latest phase of Buddhist art in India, which had its centre in 
the ancient Magadha country, i.e. Southern Behar. The 
Magadha school of sculpture has not yet been studied in detail 
so that it is difficult to fix the date of these sculptures more 
definitely. I should, however, be inclined to assign them to the 
period from 1000 to 1200 a.p., in other words, the two cen- 
turies immediately preceding the Muhammadan conquest. 
This assumption well agrees with the evidence to be derived 
from the bas-relief in the Pagién Museum. Mr. Taw Sein Ko, 
to whom I owe the excellent photograph reproduced in plate 
XXIV, informs me that the little sculpture in question was 
found in the Ka-zun-o Pagoda which was built by Narapati- 
sithu, King of Pagan, about the year 1183 a.p. The Pagoda is 
in a ruined condition and, a portion of it having collapsed, a 
Buddhist monk residing in the vicinity found the sculpture 
among the débris. The presumption, therefore, is that it was 
originally buried in the structure of the Pagoda and that it 
dropped to the ground along with the fallen bricks. 
The Pagan Museum contains another little sculpture of the 
same size and type. It was found near the Manuha Temple 
and is No.44 of the local collection. Here the treatment 1s 
somewhat simpler and some of the scenes are more or less 
defaced. 
collection of such signacula. 
n iaeval India also,’’ the author continues, “* has left 
us by hundreds the witnesses of that custom. They are mostly 
simple lumps of clay moulded and stamped by means of a signet, 
which served at the same time as memento and ex-voto and were 
! Journal Asiatique, 1911, pp. 55 sqq- 
