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NOTES ON ANTIQUITIES IN RAMANNADESA.
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Explanation of Index Plate Ia.
Figures (1) and (2) are two figures on one throne (palin:71). Fig. (1) is the Buddha in priestly costume. Fig. (2) is the Buddha as Zabûbade. In this case the sole of the right foot is not exposed. The material is wood. Fig. (3) is a "Shân Buddha." Priestly costume; the sole of the right foot is not exposed: material, wood. The same is to be said of figs. (4), (9), (11), (12), (13), and (14), all carved in a series of thrones or niches in the same piece of wood; also of figs. (33), (34), (40), (41), (43). Fig. (35) shews the same in stone.
Figures (5) and (6) are priestly disciples in the attitude of adoration : material, wood. So is fig. (7): material, stone.
Figure (10) is very interesting as being a "Cambodian tower" in wood, exhibiting the four Baddhas of this dispensation, Kakusandha, Kônagamana, Kasapa, Gôtama.
Figure (8) is Zabûbade in the attitude of submission to the Buddha after his conversion material, wood.
Figures (15), (16), (17) and (18) show the Buddha seated in the coils of the serpent Ananta, as on a throne. The serpent is three-headed: the three heads being grotesqued and conventionalized in true Burmese fashion. In both these instances the Buddha has both soles exposed material, wood.
Figures (19) and (23) shew what is known in Burma as a "Siamese Buddha" (Yôd'ayà Paya). It is winged after the fashion of Indian and Sinhalese Buddhas: material terra-cotta. Fig. (36) exhibits the same in stone.
Figures (20) and (37) shew the Buddha as Zabûbade: material, wood. Fig. (24) exhibits the same in terra-cotta: and fig. (39) in stone. So does fig. (42) in stone. Both soles are exposed, probably, in each case.
Figures (21) and (22) are two figures of the Buddha as Zabûbadê on one throne. In this case the sole of the right foot is not exposed: material, wood.
Figures (25) and (28) exhibits the Buddha in priestly costume, both soles exposed; but the type is antique.
Figure (26) exhibits the head of the Buddha of the Shân type in plaster.
Figure (27) is the background in wood of a throne and had originally an image fixed on to it. It is chiefly interesting as shewing symbols of the sun and moon (?), one above the other.
Figures (29) and (30) shew the janitors of a shrine, much in the fashion common on doorways in Ceylon and in Cambodia. Material, wood. Compare Plates IV. fig. 1, X. fig. 3, XIV. fig. 16, of Forchhammer's Report on the Antiquities of Arakan for similar figures.
Figure (31) is an image of Mabondayê in terra-cotta.
Figure (38) shews two images of the "Shân Buddha" seated on the same throne: material, wood.
It will be perceived that the pagoda, at the foot of which the images have been placed, has been broken into for treasure. This pagoda is that shewn again in Plate V.
Plate III.
This plate shews the elevation of the Entrance Hall of the Kògan Cave, which is alluded to in p. 336, ante, where a sketch plan of it is given. An examination of the plate through a magnifier will shew the extent to which the rock has been ornamented by lines of terra-cotta tablets, stuck on by cement and faced for the most with representations of the Buddha seated
12 Spelt pullan Pali pallanka.
