The Journal of the Ganganatha Jha Research Institute February 1946

Transcendence of Pars Vak and removal of this veil of obscurity signify therefore a single act which is only another name of the culmination of the process of divinisation of the human soul interpreted from the dualistic standpoint of the school as the restoration of its lost purity. [...] On the right the bottom of the Stupa with the impress of the sealing and knob to receive the sealing. [...] The features of this particular type are : the central knob at the bottom of the stiipa bears the impression of the seaing which was attached to the bottom of the stupa when clay was still soft. [...] The quality of firing is the same in the both the objects: The seal was prepared and the stiipa moulded then the earth was scooped away from the bottom of the votive stiipa to facilitate the attachment of the sealing. [...] The italicised portion I believe explains the position of the sealing between the bottom of the stupa and the outer surface of the lump of clay beaing on obverse the sutra.7 7. The height of the present stUfia with the sealing is about la inch cf.