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Dr. Annandale also placed at my disposal a pliofcogi^apli of two 

 seals from Goali Gam"bar (*^ Image Cave), " Ula Pahang, on the 

 eastern side of the peninsula, which are now in the Raffles 

 Museum, Singapore. One of these seals is very small and too far 

 gone to be of any use. The larger one is in a somewhat better 

 state of preservation. It possesses six figures in two row^s, three 

 in each. In the first row the figures are similar in size and are 

 seated in the posture of meditation {DhySina Diudra), on each 

 side of the head of the central figure is a chaitya. In the second 

 row the central figure is much larger and is seated on a raised 

 seat, while the other two are standing. The figures in the first 

 row are Buddhas, and the central figure in the second row has a 

 seven-hooded snake on its head as a canopy which marks him out 

 as the Divine Buddha Amoghasiddhi.^ This Dhyani Budda is 

 also to be found on the headdress of Khadiravani Tara.^ The 

 human figures in this photograph are short thickset figures, re- 

 minding one of the figures from Java, and form a good contrast to 

 the tall, graceful, lithe figures of the seals described abov^e. 



In conclusion, I beg to acknowledge that I have received much 

 help from Pandit Vinoda Vihari Vidyavinoda, the Archaeological 

 Grallery Assistant of the Indian Museum, specially in the identifi- 

 cation of the figures. 



ADDENDUM. 



Pandit Vinoda Vihari brought to my notice two stone votive 

 stupas bearing figures of Amoghasiddhi. One of them is placed 

 on a square pedestal of stone. The base of this stupa is circular 

 and plain. On this base a huge serpent is lying coiled, and on the 

 back of the serpent is a large full-blown lotus. The dome of the 

 stupa is placed on this lotus. There are four statues on the four 

 sides of the dome, and one of them is a representartion of Amogha- 

 siddha having the seven-hooded snake above its head. It is 

 sitting in the Abhaya mudrcL, The other figures are seated respec- 

 tively in the Dhyana, Varada and Bhumisparsa mudras, and so- 



are the figures of the Dhyani Buddhas, Amitabha, Katnasam* 

 bhava and Ak§obhya.^ 



In the front of the figure of Aksobhya there is a vajra on the 

 pedestal. 



The other votive stupa (Br. 14), which is larger in size, is of 

 greater importance to iconographists. The pedestal of this stupa 

 is circular. The base of the chaitya is placed on a full-blown 

 lotus above this pedestal. In this chaitya there are five niches 

 around the base, each holding a Dhyani Buddha. Generally four 

 Buddhas are figured around votive stupas.* 



X Cf- Oldfield's Nepal, Vol. II, p. 169, and Grunwedel and Bnrgesa* Bud- 

 dhist Art in India, p. &^ 



* Foucher, E'fcude Deuxietne Partie, p. 65. 



3 Gf . the description of this in Anderson's Catalogue and Handbook of 

 the Archaeological Collections in the Indian Mnseam, Part II, p. 81, Br. 13, 



* Annual Report of the Archseological Survey of India, 1903*4, p. 220- 



