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un nombre considerable d’hommcs a qni il est donne de le voir dans toute sa 
majesty. Aussi la multitude de ses adorateurs s’accroit-elle de jour en jour. 
Les personnes qui lui rendent des hommages assidus, craignant que la foule 
des visiteurs ne salit cette venerable statue, ont fait 61cver autour, a une dis- 
tance do sept pas, une balustrade en bois herissee de pointes de fer. Ceux 
qui vienncnt saluer et adorer la statue, sont obliges de se tenir en dehors de 
la balustrade. Ne pouvant l’approcher, ils jettent de loin les fleurs qu’ils 
viennent lui offrir. Ceux qui reussissent a fixer leurs guirlandes de fleurs 
sur les mains et sur les bras du Bodhisattoa , regardent cela commo un heu- 
reux presage, et se persuadent qu’ils verront l’aceomplissement de leurs 
VOJUX.’ 
Three miles to the north of Soh, on the east bank of the river, which 
was once of considerable width, there are distinct traces of a stupa and 
monastery, and the huge piles of brick on every side induce nic to think 
that a nourishing town once surrounded the religious edifices. The whole of 
the ruins are encircled with luxuriant groves of pipal trees, and the villagers 
had collected all the fragments of ehaityas, mouldings, &o., around their roots. 
A portion of a figure of Padmapani was so firmly imbedded in the wood, 
that a piece nearly a foot square had to be removed before it could be ex- 
tracted. The figures found at liohoi are perfect and umnutilatod, a very 
unusual circumstance in Bihar, the record on the tomb of whose saints 
generally winds up by telling us that the deceased “ was a breaker of images, 
and God has therefore given him a place in Paradise.” The whole of the 
idols appear to have been removed (doubtless at the approach of the Mu- 
hammadans) and buried some distance from the ruins the open plain. They 
were discovered there by the zamindar of ltohoi — a Bundela Rajput by 
caste— twenty years ago, and taken away by him to his garden, where 1 
found them. They had been arranged merely for ornament, and he at once 
offered them to me. The principal idols arc figures of Buddha in differ- 
ent positions resembling those already described. The finest is an idol, 
three feet two inches high, quite perfect, and resembling in many respects 
the one found at Tillarah. The crown worn is five-sided and very tall, 
and the body is not covered by a jacket. The female archers are seeD 
at the feet of the attendants and not above them. Parallel to the head 
are figures holding scrolls. On the shoulders of the charioteer beneath the 
feet is seated a small female figure. The wheel of the chariot is in the 
centre, and a horse is seen within it with its head to the left. Of the remain- 
ing horses three gallop to the right and three to the left. A small figure 
of Padmapani exquisitely carved. There is a Buddha seated in the hair, 
and a ehaitya on either side of the head. Three alto-relievo figures of Buddha 
in the attitude of repose, in very fine black basalt, three feet nine inches. Around 
the body the stone has been completely removed. The body is inclined to the 
