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Lumbini, surrounded by guards and attendants. 



Plate XLIII. 55. The Buddha is born. His mother, recover- 

 ed from her pains, is exalted on a pedestal, resting her left hand on 

 the arm of one of her women, and holding a flower in her right 

 hand. The new-born child, shewing his divinity by his exemption 

 from the weakness of infancy, is standing up, receiving the homage 

 of those about him, while a shower of celestial flowers descends 

 upon him. Possibly the picture is intended to represent him taking 

 the seven steps of the legend. (See Photograph No. 5.) 



Plate XLV. 59. The widowed Suddhodaxa sitting with Sid- 

 dhartha. upon his knee, and attended by the women of the palace. 



Plate XLIX. 67. This plate is interesting, because it repre- 

 sents one of the bas-reliefs which Crawfurd has given in the 

 " History of the Indian Archipelago," and he interprets it in a 

 different manner from aT. AVilsex. Crawfurd sees in it Siya in 

 his car, and recognises in the projections from the head of the 

 central figure (which in AVilsex's plate is almost obliterated) the 

 crescent of Siya. "Wilsey considers that the sculpture represents 

 the young Siddhartha in a chariot with his father and others, and 

 sees in the projections from the head, the ends of the peculiar 

 head-dress which is worn by the child in some others of the sculp- 

 tures. 



Plate L. G9. The young Siddhartha astonishing his royal 

 father, a learned Brahmin and others (possibly the students in a 

 school) by his early-developed intelligence. 



Plate LIX. 87. The assembly of the }*oung Sakyas challenged 

 by the prince to a contest in scholarship and athletics. Siddhar- 

 tha illustrating the triumph of intellectual over moral force by 

 taming an elephant. 



Plate LXXI. 111. Siddhartha seated in his chariot meeting 

 the poor old man. The child with the aged pauper probably signi- 

 fies that he is blind. 



Plate LXXII. 113. Siddhartha the next day meeting the 

 sick man at the point of death. 



Plate LXXIII. 115. Siddhartha meeting with the dead man. 



Plate LXXIY. 117. The fourth encounter. The hermit is 

 in the attitude of a man who is demonstrating some problem. The 

 charioteer Chaxjsa, whose memory is so carfully preserved in the 



