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B. Mitra —Pictures of Tirthanlcaras. [Deo. 
Potla, # the road is lined by Banras of the several Gumhas on both sides, each 
with an umbrella and a flag for presentation. Thus attended the Lama is 
conveyed from Bikaj' to Potla, and Chinese and Bhotia officers join in the 
procession. 
On the 14th f of Sawun Sudi, the Lama is put on the gaddi. Before 
putting him on the gaddi, the Lama is made to stand before the gaddi, the 
Ambah puts the presents from the Emperor of China before him and then 
two papers in Chinese and another in Bhotia are read. The Lama then 
facing to the East kneels down and bows his head in obeisance to the 
Emperor of China. He, after going through these ceremonies, sits on the 
gaddi. The Chinese papers alluded to above are explained to he an order 
from the Emperor of China to the effect that having learnt from Tale 
Lama,§ the Chinese Ambahs and the four Kajis of Bhote, that the new 
Lama has identified the things left by the late deceased Lama as his own, the 
Emperor authorizes him to sit on his former gaddi. When the Lama is 
conveyed fiom Lika to 1 otla the road is swept, and the windows and doors 
of the houses are adorned with fringes and purdahs and the terraces with 
flags. Any man omitting to do this, is severely punished. 
Dated 12th of Bhadon badi Samvat 1930 (14th August, 1879). 
Dr. Bajendralala Mitra exhibited a collection of Jain Native 
Paintings lately obtained from Eajputana. 
Dr. Mitra said,—the collection comprised two sets of paintings one 
representing the twenty-four Tirthanlcaras of the Jains, and the° other 
forty-eight Jinas or forms of Jina. Artistically they were of no value’ 
and as regards age, he thought, they could not be much more than a 
hundred and fifty years old, though the seller represented that they were 
much older. The first set, moreover, was very monotonous. The pose, 
the grouping, the details of ornamentation, and the colouring, were alike in 
all the paintings. The principal image is a nude male, standing in a stiff 
posture on a lotus, and having the hands hanging by the side. Below the 
lotus there is a throne, and on the rim of it there is the distinctive emblem 
of the saint, and it is different in every case; the colour of the images also 
varies in some of the paintings, hut the prevailing colour is yellow or golden. 
On each side of the image there is an attendant waving an ox-tail chauri. 
The likeness of this attendant is the same in all the paintings, so is that of 
a man standing with joined hands on the right side. This person is said to 
* The Palace Monastery of the Dalai Lama on the plain of Lhasa, 
t Apparently the place where the present Lama was discovered. 
t 1st August, 1879. 
^ 1 do not recognize the appellation. The other three great incarnations are the 
Teshu Lama of Tibet, the Taranath Lama of Urga and the Ghangai Lama of Pekin. 
