xil Archeological Survey Report. 
figure, with a short inscription over the right shoulder in characters 
of about A. D. 1000, Sri Buddha- Dasasya, “ (the gift) of the fortunate 
slave of Buddha.” The goddess Tara belongs to the later days of 
Buddhism, after the introduction of Tantrika doctrines. The other 
temple contains a seated male figure, holding a lotus in his left hand, 
and a sword in his uplifted right hand, with a Buddhist tope or solid 
tower on each side of him. 
27. To the north ofthe Bodhi tree there is a ruined fortress of 
earth 1,500 feet long by 1,000 feet broad, attributed to Raja Amara 
Sinha, Suvira. This is possibly the same person as the Amara Deva 
who built the Great Temple, as the arched passage leading to the 
temple is said to have been built for the convenience of Amara Sinh’s 
Rani when returning from her morning bath in the Nilajan river 
to pay her devotions at the shrine. The preservation of the title of 
Sinha down to the present day would seem to strengthen the suppo- 
sition of Amara Deva’s identity with the author of the Amara Kosh. 
28. The remaining antiquities of Buddha Gaya consist of numerous 
Buddhist statues of all sizes, some placed in small temples, and 
others scattered about the ruins; but the greatest number of them, 
and by far the finest, are fixed in the walls of the Mahant’s residence. 
29. ‘The existing inscriptions at Buddha Gaya are few in number, 
and, with one exception, they are of little importance. Two valuable 
inscriptions translated by Wilkins and James Prinsep are no longer 
to be found ; nor does the Mahant know anything about them. This 
is the more to be regretted as the former was the record already 
quoted of Amara Deva and the other hada doubtful date which 
might have been re-examined. In searching for these, however, I 
found a new inscription in the pavement of the gateway of the 
Mahant’s residence. The tenon hinge of the gate works in a socket 
formed in the very middle of the inscription. There are two socket 
holes, the second one having belonged to an older gate, or having 
been cut in the wrong position. This inscription opens with an 
invocation to Buddha. 
I1I.—Baxror. 
30. To the eastward of Buddha Gaya, on the opposite bank of the 
Phalgu or Lilajan River, and immediately to the north of the village 
of Bakror, there are the ruins of a large brick tope, with a stump 
of a sand-stone pillar at a short distance to the northward. The 
