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The outer corridor is roofed with a continuous flying buttress, 

 or half pointed arch, abutting on the massive outer walls. The 

 inner corridor and cells are pointed vaults. 



been brought from central India. There is undoubtedly a great similarity, so 

 that it is impossible not to conclude that these have been carved by Indian artists. 

 The following are the principal figures and groups illustrating events of Gautama's 

 life. A recumbent female figure richly clad with large earrings, and pendent ears, 

 decked with numerous armlets from the wrist to the elbow ; the figure and dress 

 are entirely in the Indian fashion. The hair of all the female figures in these 

 groups is bound up sideways in the form of a cornucopia, and in a fashion, cer- 

 tainly not Burmese. This is said to be the Princess Ya-thau-da-ya,* the wife of 

 Prince- Theiddat,t i. e. Gautama, before he left his father's kingdom and became 

 a hermit. The four predictive signs displayed to the Prince, and which, convinc- 

 ing him of the vanity of all earthly things, determined him to leave his father's 

 palace and go forth to the wilderness, are here displayed in separate groups. The 

 Prince, from Ins chariot, sees the decrepid man, the diseased, the dead and de- 

 cayed, and finally the Priest ordained. He chooses the latter state as the only 

 refuge from the ills of mortality. In another sculpture is represented a stately 

 female with her left arm round the neck of another, and both standing beneath a 

 tree. This is the figure of Gautama's mother called Amay-dau-ma-ya,J beneath 

 the Engyeen tree (Shorea robusta), when giving birth to her son while on a jour- 

 ney. She leans on the neck of her younger sister Gau-da-mee. A female atten- 

 dant is near at hand. On the right of the mother is seen the infant, as if just 

 born, but displaying his inherent glory, while three other minute figures of him 

 denote his being received by the three higher orders of beings, Byahmas, Nats and 

 men, the latter being lowest and receiving him on earth. This scene is repeated 

 four times in the temple with some small variations. 



It would be tedious to recount in detail the whole of these interesting sculp- 

 tures ; but I will mention that they include Prince Theiddatf in his palace sur- 

 rounded by musicians and attendants, but dissatisfied with worldly splendour ; 

 then they show him taking a last look at his sleeping wife and child, before going 

 forth to the wilderness ; mounting his horse, and leaving, despite of all opposi- 

 tion ; stringing a famous bow before the Court of his maternal uncle Thoopa- 

 bood-da,§ the King of De-wa-da-ha, who then bestowed on him in marriage his 

 daughter Ya-thau-daya. 



All these and many others, the subjects of winch, I did not recognize, but which 

 evidently relate to events in the life of Gautama, have no doubt been chiseled by 

 Indian artists at an early period. 



* Yasodhara. f Siddhartha. 



% Maha Maya. § Supra-Budha. 



