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            In submitting  to the  Society  the  accompanying
        drawings  of the more remarkable  of the carvings the
        Buddhist  rail-posts  at  Budh  Gaya, some  from  the
        court-yard of the mahant, but chiefly from the little
        temple by the tower, I would beg to draw attention to
        some of them --

            Plate, No.  IV.  Firstly.--The boat scene, almost
        identical  with the one figured by Cumningham  in the
        Bhilsa Topes.

            Secondly.  -- The rest of the upper portion is of
        the  same  sheet, all  of them  copies, doubtless  of
        Buddhist rails, pillars, and buildings.  Here we find
        the round pointed arch, but this argues nothing, when
        we remember  that there were imitations  of wood work
        and of thatch and bamboos  as in the cave of the rock
        temples of Barabur close by.

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            Thirdly. -- The central compartments are curious,
        but need little  remark.  At first  I took  them  for
        astronomical emblems as signs of the zodiac, but I do
        not think they are.

            Fourthly.  --  The lower ornament  is nearly  the
        same in all.

            Memo.--  Although drawn one over the other --  it
        does not follow  that the identical  three  were upon
        one and the same rail-post.

            Plate No.  V.-- The figure shewn as No. 2, to the
        left is rather  unusual.  It wants all the refinement
        of Buddha, and does  not, I think, represent  him  --
        There  is another  such figure  let into the wall, as
        you enter the lower  room in the great  tower  on the
        right  hand, inside  the doorway.  The  fifth  sketch
        puzzled me.  It is perhaps  intended  to represent  a
        good trick. To the extreme left is, what I believe to
        be, the  only  remnant  yet  found  in Benares  of  a
        Buddhist  rail.  It is much  defaced, and obliterated
        with dirt and ghce, and stands nearly opposite to the
        door  of the golden  temple  on the left  hand of the
        street.

            The demon face to the extreme  left of the centre
        one much resembles the Sarnath demon face; whilst the
        cornice  is very bold, free.  above the floor  of the
        highest  chamber, must have been built  in, when  the
        tower  was built, and I should  not assign  any great
        age to it.

            The portion of the Singhasan or idol shrine drawn
        nearly to scale, and which shews the holes into which
        were  set  the fastenings  of the metal  covering, is
        very curious.  It exactly corresponds in style to the
        whole of the exterior plaistering of the great tower,
        and in the event of the arches having been declare to
        be coeval  with  the  tower, I must  amend  my former
        opinion, and would  hold that the tower  was rebuilt,
        interiorly  arched, and wholly plaistered at or about
        500 A.D.  the date of Amara  Sinha, when the original
        Buddhist  railing  included  both the Bo tree and the
        tower.

            In  conclusion, I may  remark, that  although  my
        drawings   are  very   defective,  yet  the  original
        carvings  are very  rude, and clearly  betoken  their
        early execution.