Modern Review February 1927

The miracles of the older faiths continued: they were ascribed to Muslim sipritual power; the hair of the Prophet's beard replaced the hair of Buddha and the miracles of the Stupas were reprduced in the mysterious movements of the tombs (Turbat) of the minor prophets" of Islam. [...] Jelalabad is the holy Nagarahara the site of the miracle of the Buddha Dipankara one of the most celebrated in Buddhism and a favourite theme of Grew-Buddhist sculpture flidda is the Hi-lo of Hitien Tsiang a place of famous Buddhist pilgrimage owing to its precious relics of Buddha. [...] It is situated on a side of the Black Mountain and dominates the etire valley which opens out at the confluence of the Kabul River and the Surkh Rud thus overlooking the site of Nagarahara the modern Jelalabad and even the valley of Hidda which meets the valley of Jelalabad a few miles to the east. [...] But the recent discovery ly the French of the foundations of the ncient monasteries and the vestiges of barrages quays in the vast beds of waterless itreams confirms the faithful account of the Dhinese pilgrim. [...] They hold Nr..1 Or ' Sturm in Buddhist Kabul that the colossal statues of Bamiyan also belong to the same Indn-Greek School but the decoration and plan of the grottoes and the paintings in the niches approximate to the architecture and paintings of the Buddhist sanctuaries ef central Asia.