286 Notes on Boodh Gya. [No. 4, 
In fact, together with the arched, plastered and painted chamber, 
they may and probably were all erected by Amara Sinha, when he 
thoroughly restored the temple. 
The enormous thickness of the walls and the goodness of the mortar 
would allow of large breaches being made with impunity; whilst the 
insertion of the great beam over the lowest arch gives colour to this 
theory. The two interior arched chambers, with the semicircular 
recessed end of the lower, appear to me to have been subsequently 
put in. The plaster of the upright wall on the inside above the flooring 
of the upper room shews how the other work would seemingly have 
been built on to it. 
; The outer plastering also, when removed from 
the capitals of the little columns in relief, shews 
ornamental work below of a very primitive type: 
es iee) whilst the original brick-work is substantial in the 
extreme. 
The entrance to the basement of the tower was 
doubtless a somewhat narrow, but extremely lofty rectangular doorway 
with stone jambs and a stone architrave. If this were the case, the 
insertion of an arch were extremely easy, and this would correspond 
with the—in many points similar—temple of Kooch. 
The only difference is that the last named temple is smaller—hence 
many inferences may be drawn therefrom as it was probably a copy of 
the great tower. 
I would, therefore in conclusion, with great deference suggest that 
the arches are all of them of the date of Amara Sinha, or about 500 
A. D., whilst the original building dates back perhaps to 200 B. C. 
The country around Boodh Gya, as it is well known, is studded 
with Boodhist remains of every age, which would well repay careful 
study, and I shall be very glad if these notes provoke others, as those 
of Babu Rajendralila Mitra did me, to make a pilgrimage to this 
very ancient and interesting district which has never yet been explored, 
except in the most partial manner, 
April 20th, 1865. 

