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L. A. Waddell —On the site of Buddhas death, 
[No. 1, 
Buddhist ruins, still I here give the Brahmanical names as reported by 
the attendant priests, as, this being a wealthy temple, the priests were 
more learned than usual, and the names should give some idea of the 
nature of the images. After stating that the Buddhist pilgrims gave 
the above-noted names to the images, these priests said that the Brah¬ 
manical names were as follows, which I give in the order of the previous 
list :— 
No. 1. Dwitiya Madhaber murti. 
No. 2. Lai Kanaiya Bankat Biharer murti. 
No. 3. Basu Deber murti. 
No. 4. Hayagriber murti. 
In the vestibule are lotus ornamentations and several articles of the 
usual paraphernalia of a Buddhist temple including the following:—A 
pyramidal framework or wheeless car like the Tibetan Ghhang-ga chu - 
tuJc , with lion figures at the corners of each tier, such as is used to seat 
the image of a demon which is to be carried beyond the precincts of 
the temple and there thrown away. The present frame is used by the 
priests of this temple to parade in the open air one of the smaller images 
of the shrine ( ? Hayagriva), but the image is again returned to the 
shrine. Above this throne is stretched a canopy called by the Lamas 
Nam-yul. It contains the figure of an 8-petal led lotus flower and has, 
as is customary, a dependant red fringe. On either side is hung a 
huge closed umbrella. These articles have been in the temple from time 
immemorial. 
Of the external decorations of the temple, the row of sculptured 
elephants along the basement, evidently a portion of the old Buddhist 
temple, has been figured by Col. Dalton in the paper above referred to ; 
and is identical with the decorative style of the Kylas cave temple of 
Ellora figured by Fergusson in plate XV of his ‘ Gave Temples ’. The 
upper walls are covered with sculptured figures nearly life size. The 
ten avatdras of Vishnu are represented with Buddha as the ninth. 
The remaining figures are of a rather nondescript character, but they 
are mostly male, and nearly every figure carries a trident ( trisula )—the 
hhatam of the Buddhists. The Lamas state that these figures were for¬ 
merly inside the temple, but that Buddha ejected them. And it is 
stated that the temple was built in one night by Jo-wo gye-bo Bish-wa- 
Karma* the Vulcan of the Hindus and Buddhists. 
Attached to the temple is a colony of Natl or dancing girls,f 
t “ Asam, or at least the north-east of Bengal (i e., Kamrup) seems to have 
boon in a great degree the source from which the Tantrica and Sakta corruptions 
