184/.] Xote on the Sculptures of B6dh Gyah. 339 



winged oxen and horses, and the sphynxes, all are objects at once 

 curious and instructive, for which reason I have taken the drawings I 

 have now the pleasure to lay before you. 



As I am always asked by those who have been at Bodh Gyah, where 

 these curiosities are to be seen, I will explain for the guidance of future 

 travellers — first then, to the right hand facing the great tower within 

 the quadrangle, is a miserable modern built mut or temple, containing 

 five Budha images shown to the visitors under the name of the Panch 

 Pandus ; beside this is another with a kind of porch supported by eight 

 or nine flat octagonal pillars; on these many of the sculptures are to be 

 seen, also the sentence H £ <L~H A £ £-L" ^ ne 8*^ to Gyah of Ajaya 

 the ? The meaning of the word -\- 1 I cannot make out ; it may be 

 Kuru, and if so, it will read " of the invincible Kuril ;" there are other 

 fragments built into the ceiling of the little temple in the centre of the 

 square, also in the great temple itself; further sculptures of the same 

 kind are to be seen in the colonade of the Mahunt's mut or monastery, 

 where there are five more octagons and one square pillar of the same sort, 

 on which latter the most curious subjects are found. There are a num- 

 ber of other pillars there, of the same shape and dimensions, but of 

 a different material (granite), date and style of sculpture, the most 

 interesting specimens of which are here represented, tinted blue in con- 

 tradistinction to the others, which are of a redish yellow hue.* 



I have been unable to find any of the eliptical connecting bars, but 

 several portions of the upper rail or capping are to be seen ; many 

 stones have been carried away, others are built into the walls of the 

 mut and many still lie buried beneath the rubbish behind the great 

 temple, where the rest were found. 



There are many idols and fragments of former buildings well worth 

 drawing, and I hope I shall be some day enabled to add them to the 

 large collection I already possess and to offer a few remarks on them, 

 my present notice was intended to apply only to the more ancient 

 Budha sculptures ; I shall now therefore take leave of my readers, on 

 whose patience I must have already trespassed too long. 



* This refers to the admirable drawings exhibited at the meeting, and on the 

 occasion of Cant. Kittoe's interesting lecture on the Buddhist antiquities of Gyah. 



—Els. 



