22 H. Cousens —"Report on the Boria or Bakha Medi Stupa. [No. 2, 
part can be discovered, the trouble and expense in getting at them will be 
amply repaid. The top member of the Tee or triple umbrella is a 
huge heavy slab one foot two inches thick. The edges round are 
broken away, but one image mortise remains at one corner, 3 feet 4 
inches from the centre. The centre of the slab is pierced with a 
large round hole, 1 foot 3| inches in diameter, to receive the stem 
of the umbrella. Three-fourths of the entire rim of the great um¬ 
brella were found, and they all piece together remarkably well, and 
give a diameter of 10 feet and a thickness of 1 foot. Four fragments of 
the four supporting images (one of each) have also been found, and the 
tenons under their feet correspond with the mortise in the top of the 
Tee. In the lower edge of the umbrella rim are the corresponding 
mortises to receive the tops of the images. The underside of the umbrella 
is slightly hollowed out. The whole was originally in one piece, but as 
yet the central parts and the remaining fragments of the rim have not 
been found. Nearly half the collar, however, with portions of the two 
upper ones, of different thickness, have been excavated. The holes in 
these decrease in size. Portion of a smaller figure, probably from the 
second tier, has been recovered. In the top of the big umbrella are 
four mortises immediatly above those below, but near the centre, for 
the feet of these upper images. In the edge of the umbrella small 
holes are drilled through half way, between the images and about 
§ inch diameter, apparently intended for hangings or the sticks of small 
flags. There are many other fragments and slabs whose original use 
cannot as yet be definitely determined, but in addition to these are the 
fragments of two lengths of rail slab, 8 feet 3 inches by 3 feet 5| inches. 
These have long tongues at either end to fit into long mortises in some 
supports not yet found. The surface is carved into uprights with 
three bands of rail running through them. On the upright struts are 
incised central circles with a half circle at top and bottom. The length 
of these slabs is the length of a side of the original polygonal railing 
round a stupa or structural dagoba. 
The question which now requires solution is, whether the triple 
umbrella was an erection over a previous stupa or over a structural 
dagoba. That it was never erected over the present stupa is self-evi¬ 
dent from the positions in which the fragments were found. If a larger 
stupa existed on this spot, it is very unlikely that it would have been 
pulled down and rebuilt. It would have been repaired if necessary 
or an outer casing added. It is my opinion that a structural dagoba 
existed probably on this spot before the stupa , and the triple umbrella 
being so top-heavy fell and was smashed as we find it; and in this 
was enshrined the present relics. Finding how unstable this arrange- 
