136 H mvett-Cavnac— On Clai/ Discs called " Swindle TVJwrl" ['No. 3, 



usually about four feet bigh, and four feet wide. Some of these walls are 

 as much as a quarter of a mile in length, and are made, we were informed, 

 with the following object. When a Buddhist undertakes a journey, or 

 makes a vow, be chooses a flat stone, takes it to a monastery, and gets a 

 lama (or monk) to engrave some rude characters upon it, which are said to 

 be usually, ' Om maiii ^^adme Om,' which has been translated to mean, 

 ' All hail to the jewel in the flower of the lotus !' though some give other 

 interpretations to these words. When his stone is thus prepared, the in- 

 dividual places it on the top of one of these walls, which on their upper 

 surface are almost covered with such engraved stones. Thibetans when 

 passing these walls, always keep them on their right hand, and frequently 

 go out of their direct road in order to do this." 



There would seem, then, to be little doubt that the Terra-Cottas, plain 

 and ornamented, and those also bearing the formula of the Buddhist faith, 

 were votive offerings of a by-gone age. 



In what little I can do to further the objects of the Society, I generally 

 try to content myself with bringing facts to notice, and pointing out the 

 resemblance between the remains found in India and those discovered in 

 other parts of the world. It must be left to those who are better informed 

 than myself, or who are more fortunate in being able to consult what has 

 been written by authorities on the subject, to determine whether there is 

 any real significance in the resemblance between the remains found at 

 Sankisa and those of Hissarlik and Italy. I am not unprepared 

 for the argument that a knife is a knife all the world over, and that this 

 form of implement must have suggested itself to all people at an early 

 stage of civilisation ; and that the fact of implements in the form of 

 knives having been fotmd at Hissarlik and at Sankisa would not be suflicient 

 to establish any connection between the settlers at these widely separated 

 sites. It may also be urged that earthen spindle-whorls might naturally 

 enough suggest themselves to different races situated far apart from one 

 another. But surely there is something more than a chance resemblance 

 in the several types of these remains and the style of their ornamentation ? 

 And does not the continual recui'renee of, what we call, the Buddhist sym- 

 bols on the Hissarlik finds, suggest the possibility of Hissarlik and Sankisa 

 having been colonized by branches of the same race, be it Buddhist or not, 

 one of which striking west from some point in Central Asia, found its way 

 to the shores of the Mediterranean, whilst another, taking a southerly 

 course, established itself in the Gangetie valley ? 



