is recorded as supplementary to the hymn of praise of Ho-Yun."

This inscription was found in the summer of 1880, under 12 feet of rubbish surrounding the Great Temple.

B. G. 123.-A Chinese inscription on a slab of sandstone, measuring 15" x 6" 25 x 27"-5, excavated from the ruins around the Great Temple, 1880-82. The translation of this has not yet been published, as far as I can ascertain.

B. G. 124.-A Chinese inscription on a slab of sandstone like the last, measuring 15" 75 × 7′′ × 2′′-25, excavated from the ruins around the Great Temple, 1880-82, and apparently not yet translated, or at least published.

B. G. 125.-A figure of Buddha under the Bodhi-tree in the bhumisparsa mudra, with an inscription round the halo. It measures 10" 25 x 7" 25.

B. G. 126.-A rudely carved figure of Buddha in the bhumisparsa mudrā, smeared with red paint, measuring9′′ 50 × 4′′·50 and with two inscriptions on the throne.

B. G. 127.-A figure of Buddha in the bhumisparsa mudrā under the Bodhi-tree, with an inscription on the pedestal, measuring 7-25 x 5".

B. G. 128.-A figure of Maitreya Buddha in the bhumisparsa mudrā, measuring 7′′-25 × 5′′·25.

B. G. 129.-A clay fragment of the back slab of a statue bearing a small erect figure of Buddha and stamped with a seal. It measures 7′′ x 5′′.

B. G. 130.-A small figure of Buddha in the bhumisparsa mudrā under the Bodhi-tree, measuring 5" 75 × 3′′, and with an inscription on the back.

B. G. 131.-A fragment of the back of a statue in steatite, measuring 13.75 x 4", with two human figures cut on it in bold relief, standing on lotus brackets with an inscription between them.

B. G. 132.-A rude, female human figure in steatite, seated on a lotus throne, with a small attendant figure to the left. The attitude of the figure is the same as that of the female, S. 25, and as the male figures of this series B. G. 54 and 74. The slab behind the figure has a roughly carved inscription. It measures 650 x 5" 25, and probably represents a form of Tārā.

B. G. 133.-A slab 19" 50 in length and 10"-50 in height, with eight erect human figures standing on a pedestal with an inscription in Chinese on its front. Seven of the figures, Sakya Muni, Kāṣyapa, Kanaka, Krakuchanda, Wiswabhu, Sikhin, and Vipassin, represent the seven mortal Buddhas, as each has the head-dress of a Buddha, and is standing under his tree, all the attitudes of the hands being different. The eighth figure is Maitreya, the Buddha to come. 2 The inscription is continued round the sides of the pediment on which the figures stand, which may have led Professor Beal to suppose from the rubbing he had, that it is imperfect, and "that the figures must have been executed after the inscription was placed in situ..

Professor Beal says that this inscription "gives us the name of Chi-I, a priest of the Great Han country, presumably the writer of it. It states that Chi-I, having first vowed to exhort or encourage thirty thousand men to prepare themselves by their conduct for a birth in heaven, to distribute in charity 30,000 books, relating to a heavenly birth, himself to recite as many books, then, in company with others, travelled through India, and arrived at Magadha,

1 Beal, Ind. Ant., Vol. X, p. 193, Pl. 29; Journ. Roy. As. Soc., New Series, Vol. XIII, p. 552. Pl. 2.

See Antiquarian Researches at Sopara and Padama, 1882, p. 27 et seq. and plates.

Ind. Ant., p. 193.

where he gazed upon the Diamond throne, and other sacred vestiges of his religion. After this, in company with some other priests he further vowed to continue his travels through India, apparently for the same purpose. Amongst the Priests referred to, there are three named, the first Kwei-Tsêih, the second Chi-I, the third Kwang Fung."

Professor Beal continues :1" Beyond this I am unable to find anything important in the inscription. The forms of the characters may possibly be as ancient as the Han dynasty."

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"There is barely a doubt whether the Great Han country refers to China. There is a record noticed by Klaproth in his Annales des Empereurs du Japon (p. 6. n.), concerning a country called Ta-Han, somewhere to the eastward of China. As Klaproth gives no Chinese symbols, we cannot say whether the country so named is the same as that in the inscription. But if it is so, there is just a doubt whether these missionary priests were not Coreans or belonging to the Ta-han country of Klaproth.

"The vow to convert the world was not an unusual one with the Buddhist priests. Many of the missionaries who came to China from India were prompted to do so by this desire for the conversion of men; and we may understand that the same desire urged many Chinese priests to visit the parts of their own country bordering on India, whence they might easily advance into India itself. This might have been the case with Chi-I and his companions. If the inscriptions belong to the time of the Han dynasty in China, it must claim an antiquity of not later than the end of the second century A.D."

B. G. 134.—An erect figure of a ṣāktī with a rudely carved inscription below it. The figure carries a lotus, and on the slab Roy. As. Soc., Vol. XIII, New Series, p. 554.

there is a figure of a chaitya and on the same side a small kneeling attendant figure. It measures 8"-25 × 4”·25.

B. G. 135.—Another female figure like B. G. 134, inscribed round the margin of the slab. It measures 5"-75 × 4′′.

B. G. 136.-Another like the last, also inscribed and measuring 6" x 4"-25.

B. G. 137.-A six-armed two-headed human female figure, probably a representation of Vasudhārā, in relief, against a slab. with three impressions of inscribed Buddhist seals. This is the same figure that is twice represented in the large Chinese inscription, but here the head is double on the left side. The present specimen is made of baked clay and is perfect with the exception of the feet. It measures 6" 25 x 5′′. B. G. 138.-A small bas-relief, 3"-25 × 2′′-25, of Maitreya Buddha.

B. G. 139.-The upper half of a baked clay figure of a Bodhisatwa with a halo behind the head and a lotus on the right. The hands are in the attitude of the dharma chakra mudra. The impression of a Buddhist seal to the left. Dimensions 5" 50 x 5".

B. G. 140.—A baked clay figure of Padmapāņi, measuring 12" x 7".25, with an impression of a seal on the left side of the slab. The front of the figure and of its surroundings has been coloured bright red.

B. G. 141 to 146.-Six terra-cotta impressions, from one die, of a seated Buddha in a recess under a temple, and in the bhumisparsa mudra, the upper portion of which has the general character of the Great Temple at Buddha Gaya, surrounded by small pagodas and by streamers or banners with the inscription" Ye dhamma hētappabhwā," &c. under the throne. 1

1 Terra-cottas of nearly the same character as these were found by me in the ruins of a temple in old Pagan, Upper Burma, a locality in which they had been previously discovered by Captain Hannay. They are inscribed in old

B. G. 147 to 149.-Three other terra-cottas representing Buddha in the bhumisparsa mudra, of a different die from the foregoing, but similarly inscribed. Size 6" x 4" 50.

B. G. 150 to 152.-Three terra-cottas like the last, but smaller and inscribed, dimensions 5'50 x 4".

B. G. 153 to 156.-Two perfect terra-cottas and two fragments of the same mudra. The throne, with the canopy under which Buddha is seated, is surrounded by minute chaityas arranged in parallel lines one over the other. It has the same inscription as the previous examples. There is a short inscription in Burmese, on the sides of the fragnients, evidently scratched on, when the clay was soft.

B. G. 157.-A terra-cotta of a different form, but probably only a fragment. Buddha is seated in the dhyāna mudra under a canopy supported on two pillars, with the tree indicated above the nimbus. Not inscribed. These terra-cottas were probably used to decorate the walls of votive chaityas and small temples and were the equivalents of the large plaster images of Buddha that covered the sides of the Great Temple itself.

B. G. 158.—A small terra-cotta seal, 1"-75 × 1′′·50, of nearly the same design as the series B. G. 156 to 159, but very much smaller and probably much older, and found at such a depth under the surface that its antiquity must be considerable.

B. G. 159 to 162.-Four plaster images of Buddha, three in the bhumisparsa mudra and one in the dhyāna mudrā, of the same shape as the foregoing terra-cottas, the largest measuring 4" x 3" 20 and the smallest 3" x 3" 30. Probable age 800 to 1200 A.D. They were found in great profusion

Devanagri characters, and the very probable suggestion was offered by James Prinsep regarding those discovered by Hannay, that they had been originally made at Gaya, and had been carried to Burma by pilgrims. See my "Report on the Expedition to Western China, viâ Bhamo," 1871, p. 206.