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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt:...in plan.,. in r.-,.. mi. 4.1 i diagonal walls are built in recesses. The third temple is 78f to the north of the first. It is 9£' square. The basement is 2£' high. Then receding about 6 the plinth rises to about 10," above which the wall is constructed in carved bricks, and of which about 1J' in height remains. Above the plinth the plan is reticulated into a Saptaratha, receding A third temple, Saptaratha...-in rectangles one behind the other. On the west of the octagonal temple the enclosure wall extends to 18' and then turns southward, where about 67' was traced. On the south of the northern temple were other structures, of which even the plinths are gone. And 22j' on the east of the octagonal temple is a portion of brick wall. Between the largest temple and the western boundary wall is another mass of masonry; and in the south are other brick-works, all of which should have been skilfully traced for the purpose of accurate drawing. The multitude of carved bricks, in innumerable patterns, that are scattered about the place, proved that the superstructures were highly ornamented; and the few stones carved in ornamental designs must have belonged to a temple, which was undoubtedly built in that material. Dr. Fuhrer identifies the largest temple as that of Abhayadevi, the goddess of tha w.. Bakyas, where the infant Bodhisattva was brought V rong identification again.. on his way from Lumbini to Kapilavastu. But the name Abhaya is not found in Lalita Fistdra, where Siva and other gods of the Brahmanical pantheon are mentioned. And Hiuen Tsiang records him as Isvara, that is, Mahadeva, the great god Siva. If Abhayadevi be the same as Parvati, I could not find any figure or fragment of her amidst a number of Lingas and other sculptures. And how c...