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Memorandum upon some ancient Tiles. 



[No. I, 



No. 2. This tile has eight groups or compartments of figures. 

 Each no doubt represents a marked event or scene in the life of 

 Gautama Budha though I cannot recognise all. The first is the group 

 in the right hand, lower corner. It represents the birth of Gautama. 

 He is issuing from the right side of his mother who grasps the Shorea 

 robust a tree above her head, and is attended by her sister. The figure 

 at the top where Gautama is seen reclining represents his death in the 

 country of Koothinaron. At the foot are two lines of writing in 

 ancient Deva Nagri character. 



No. 3. A figure of Gautama Budha seated on a sort of throne 

 and his feet on a foot-stool. Around him are what appear to be 

 intended to represent pagodas or relic caskets. The modern pagodas 

 of Burma and Siam appear to have been fashioned after such-like 

 models. There is a Deva Nagri inscription below the figure. 



No. 4, is a small* tile in the shape of the leaf of the Mcus religiosa. 

 It bears a figure of Gautama in the usual attitude of reflection, and 

 a Deva-Nagri inscription below. 



Hen* 



