1892.] 
W. Hoey —Set Mahet. 
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this was the figure which surmounted one of the pillars east of the 
Jetavana in the days of the Chinese pilgrims, one of whom says it was 
an elephant’s head, while the other calls it an ox head. The pillars were, 
it would seem, 70 ft. high. The great elevation of the figure would 
amount for its being mistaken by one pilgrim for an ox head. It seems 
to have been built into the shaft of the pillar. The groove at the 
back points to its having been intended to be fastened into a wall 
or stone, so that one line of the groove should be hidden while the other 
should seem to be the base from which it rose. 
The lines aabb, eedd, zz\ xij , xw, uv, ut are all trenches which I 
dug to a great depth exposing walls and cells. There seems to have 
been a continuous line of building from u to £, and, when I stopped the 
trench at t , I found two curious square remnants of what may have been 
pillar bases and portions of chambers (35). 
I now return to the stupa (33). It seems to have been built 
here for a special reason close to the Jetavana, and I think I can 
point to the reason and identify it. On opening the cylindrical shaft in 
the middle of the stupa, I went to a depth of about 13 feet before I 
got anything. I then found a begging pot and alms bowl, black glazed 
pottery, built inside the shaft, and covered by a larger bowl inverted 
over them. I went several feet deeper, altogether about 25 feet down, 
and I found at the original base a large inverted bowl like that first 
found. I managed to lift it and what it covered without breaking the 
latter. The covering bowl had been cracked right across, probably in 
building it in. I opened the contents with care, and found a large soap¬ 
stone casket. Inside this casket was a dark green porcelain bowl con¬ 
taining the charred ashes and some charred bone-joints of a deceased 
monk. 
We know that when Sudatta promised to build Buddha a vihara, 
he asked him to nominate a disciple to design the building, and that 
Buddha sent Sariputta with Sudatta to STavasti. Many years after¬ 
wards Sariputta died at ISTalanda. The disciples cremated him, but 
brought his ashes, alms bowl, and cloak to Buddha, who was at Raja- 
griha. Buddha brought the relics to S'ravasti. Sudatta induced the 
Master to give them to him, and he built a stupa over them. Buddha 
himself gave instructions for the building of this relic-tower, and direct¬ 
ed that it should contain a vase. 
The relics found in the stupa 33 correspond, being a porcelain 
bowl, or vase, holding the ashes, inside a relic casket, and an alms bowl 
and begging pot. The most natural place to locate the stupa was in 
close proximity to the entrance of the building which Sariputta had 
designed, near the spot where he had been victorious in disputes with 
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