vill Archeological Survey Report. 
Now these particulars correspond almost exactly with the arrange- 
ments of the present buildmg. Its doorway is towards the east, and 
consequently the enshrined statue must have faced toward the east. 
The statue itself has long ago disappeared, but its pedestal still 
remains in good order. Its dimensions are as follows :—length 13 
feet 2 inches, breadth 5 feet 8 inches, and height 4 feet 4 inch, which 
measurements agree most closely with those recorded by Hwen 
Thsang ; namely, 12 feet 5 inches in length by 4 feet 2 inches in 
height. Considering how exactly both the temple and the pedestal 
of the figure correspond in size and in other respects with the descrip- 
tion of Hwen Thsang, I think there can be no reasonable doubt that 
the present temple is the same that was seen by him in the 7th 
century of our era. 
15. Now in an inscription dated in A. D. 948, which was found 
at Buddha Gaya, and translated by Sir Charles Wilkins, the author of 
the record ascribes the building of this temple and the erection of an 
image of Buddha to the illustrious Amara Deva, who is stated to 
have been one of the nine gems of the Court of King Vikramaditya. 
The last fact serves at once to identify Amara Deva with Amara 
Sinha, the author of the Amara Kosha, who as a contemporary of 
Vardha Mihira and Kélidds must have lived in A. D. 500. In this 
inscription the temple is said to have been erected in compliance with 
the command of Buddha himself, conveyed to him in a vision. Here 
then we have same story that is found in Hwen Thsang. In both 
statements a Brahman in a vision receives command from a god to 
build a temple, with an enshrined figure of Buddha. The corre- 
spondence is complete, excepting only one curious point of difference 
in the name of the god, whom the Buddhist Hwen Thsang describes 
as the Brahmanical Mahadeva, but whom the Brahmanist recorder of 
the inscription calls Buddha himself. 
16. Now the holy places at Buddha Gaya were visited between 
A. D. 399 and 414 by another Chinese pilgrim Fa-Hian, but his 
account of them is unfortunately very brief. It is, however, sufficient 
to show that there was no temple in existence at that date. Fa-Hian 
notes the spot where Buddha, seated on a stone under a great tree, 
ate some rice presented to him by two maidens. The stone still 
exists, and is described by him as about 6 feet in length and 
breadth, and 2 feet in height. Now there is a large circular stone 
