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5 feet 7} inches in diameter, and about 2 feet high in the small 
temple of Vageswari Devi, which is most probably the identical stone 
described by Fa-Hian. Itisa blue stone with whitish veins, and 
the surface is covered with minute ornament. 
17. From all the facts which I have brought forward, such as the 
non-existence of any temple in A. D. 400, the recorded erection of a 
large one by Amara Deva about A. D. 500, and the exact agreement 
in size as well as in material and ornamentation between the existing 
temple and that described by Hwen Thsang between A. D. 629 and 
642, I feel satisfied that the present lofty temple is the identical 
one that was built by the celebrated Amara Sinha about A. D. 500. 
18. Further information regarding this temple is to be found in 
the Burmese inscription discovered at Buddha Gaya by the Burmese 
Mission in 1833, and translated by Colonel Burney. Another earlier 
translation by Ratna Pala was published by James Prinsep. In this 
inscription the dates have been read differently by the two translators ; 
Ratna Pala and James Prinsep reading 667 and 668, while Colonel 
Burney and his Burmese assistants read 467 and 468. I have care- 
fully copied this inscription, and I am thus enabled to state positively 
that Colonel Burney was certainly wrong in adopting the earlier 
date in compliance with the views of the Burmese priests, whose 
object it was to reconcile the date of the inscription with their own 
history. James Prinsep remained unconvinced by Colonel Burney’s 
arguments, and appended a note to his translation, in which he 
states that the first figure of the upper date might be a little doubtful, 
but that the first 6 of the lower date seemed to him quite plain, and 
essentially different from the 4 which occurs in the second line of the 
inscription. ‘The two dates of 667 and 668 of the Burmese era, as 
read by Ratna Pala, correspond with A. D. 1305 and 1306. 
19. In this Burmese inscription the erection of the original temple 
is ascribed to Asoka, as recorded also by Hwen Thsang. Having 
become ruined, it is said to have been rebuilt by a priest named 
Naik Mahanta according to Ratna Pala, or by a lord named 
Penthagu-gyi by Colonel Burney. Where the term “ priest” is used 
by Ratna Pala, Colonel Burney gives “lord,” because, as he states, 
it is not now customary to say fa-youk of a priest, although in former 
times both priests and laymen are said to have been styled youk. The 
Burmese affix gyi, which means “ great,” has apparently been translated 
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