1857.] The Remains at Pagdn. 49 



though still to be classed as small among giants such as Thapinyu 

 and Gaudapalen. It is very much on the model of the latter, and 

 is surrounded by a brick enclosure-wall containing remains of other 

 buildings. It is full of paintings of large figures. On the wall, 

 against which the Gautama was placed, were some sixteen per- 

 sonages depicted, which looked excessively like stiff old figures of 

 the apostles on painted glass. In this, or another temple near it, 

 the whole corridor was diapered with minute paintings of Gautama 

 about an inch and a half square. 



Not far from this, the outside brickwork having partly fallen 

 from a small solid conical pagoda, it became manifest that it was 

 a real brick-and-mortar palimpsest. It had been actually built 

 over another, and that other of highly finished construction, adorn- 

 ed with beautiful moulded tiles, &c* This building formed a 



sidering probable. I rather think with the Woondouk they were simply guar- 

 dian Nats around the Buddha, to whose memory the temple has been erected. 

 The Woondouk added, however, that these images may have been put into the 

 temple to attract Brahminical worshippers, which, as from indications elsewhere, 

 Indian workmen have apparently been employed on the Pagan temples and 

 sculptures, is not improbable. 



* Tins incrustation of a sacred building appears to be a common Buddhist 

 practice. The great Shwe Madau at Pegu is thus said to have been originally 

 built by two merchants, shortly after the age of Buddha, and to have been only 

 one cubit high, raised by the same individuals to 12. (Symes's Embassy, p. 192.) 



Speaking of a great Pagoda at Bintenne near Kandy, Mr. Fergusson writes : 

 " The Mahawanso or great Buddhist history of Ceylon, describes the mode by 

 which this building was raised by successive additions, in a manner so illustrative 

 of the principle on which these relic shrines arrived at completion, that it is well 

 worth quoting. 



" The Thero Sarabhu, at the demise of the supreme Buddha receiving at his 

 funeral pile the thorax bone relic, brought and deposited it in that identical 

 dagoba [in which a lock of Buddha's hair had been previously placed.] This 

 inspired personage causing a dagoba to be erected twelve cubits high, and en- 

 shrining it, thereon departed. The younger brother of King Devenampiatisso 

 (B. C. 250,) discovering this marvellous dagoba constructed another encasing it, 

 thirty cubits in height. King Duttagamini (B. C. 161) while residing there, 

 during his subjugation of the Malabars, constructed a dagoba encasing that one 

 eighty cubits in height. Thus> was the Mohayangana dagoba completed. It is 

 possible that at each successive addition some new deposit was made : at least 



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