February, 1905. ] General Meeting. 
snatched-away by the Mahomedans. The town was stormed and 
the Arakauese settlers driven out of Chittagong. After the 
annexation of Arakan by the King of Burma, a large number 
of fresh Arakanese Buddhists immigrated into Chittagong at the 
close of the 18th Century A.D. The Maghs that now live in 
Chittagong are the descendants of these last immigrants. They 
know nothing of this image and there is no local tradition about 
it. It was in fact prepared before their arrival in Chittagong, 
and before the storming of the city by the Mahomedans. 
According to the Burmese legends, in the reign of King 
Thirimegha in the middle of the 14th Century A.D., a canine 
tooth of Buddha was brought to Tsitkain. If Tsitkain is identi- 
fied with Chittagong (about which there is of course a grave 
doubt), then in some future time we may expect also to find in 
Chittagong the golden casket in which the precious tooth-relic ~ 
was placed. 
Pandit Satis Chandra Vidyabhusana exhibited images of 
five of the sixteen famous Buddhist Mahasthaviras recovered from 
Tibet. 
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