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the satisfaction of a need, felt everywhere and always, which 
might be called one of the religious instincts of humanity.’’ 
The author further questions which would be the pious 
subjects chosen to symbolize the four great places of Buddhist 
pilgrimage. The answerisnot difficult togive. ‘At Kucinagara 
pilgrims visited, first of all, the spot of the Master’s final 
extinction marked most appropriately at an early date by a 
«til ikewise, as the essential miracle of Benares had taken 
place in the Mrigadava (Deer park), it was natural that the 
Satin order to attain omniscience. Last of all, what was 
Worshipped at Kapilavastu? Here the answer is more uncertain. 
Nodoubt, the great attraction of the place lay in the memory 
ofthe Nativity of Buddha, but, not to speak of the paternal home, 
®most ardent zeal could vacillate between the spot of his 
haterial birth and that of his spiritual regeneration, in other 
vords, between the Lumbini Garden where he was born from 
the right side of his mother, and the not less famous gate 
through which he escaped the wretched pleasures of the world. 
Whatever may have been the uncertainty of choice here, no 
lesitation, at least, was allowed with regard to the other three 
tes. A tree, a wheel and a stipa—these were sufficient to re- 
mages, the miracles which they had witnessed. However 
‘immarily these objects may have been indicated, the imagina- 
_ ton supplements the poverty of the artistic means, where human 
Y Paper is an outcome of that same custom in which, in = 
-fpainal form, M. Foucher has recognized the source an 
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