Journal of the Asiatic Society Suplementary Number 1863

I read the date as follows : lithagavati parinirvritte Samvat 1816 Kdrtike badi 1 Budhe that is in the year 1816 of the emancipation of Bhagavata on Wednesday the 1st day of the waning moon of liartika." If the era here used is the same as that of the Buddhists of Ceylon and Burmah which began in 543 B. C. the date of this inscription will be 1816-543=A. [...] There are other points of interest connected with the building of the Great Temple at Buddha Gaya such as the date of the Brahmanist King Sasdngka who rooted up the Bodhi tree and placed an image of Mahadeva in the temple as well as the date of his contemporary the Buddhist Puma Varmma who renewed the Bodhi tree. [...] They show the Buddhistic 'belief of the donor in the veneration for solid towers and trees ; they show the style of architecture in the representations of temples houses gates and city walls ; and the costumes of the people in the dresses of the king and of other worshippers of each sex. [...] The preservation of the title of Sinha down to the present day would seem to strengthen the suppsition of Amara Deva's identity with the author of the Amara Rosh. [...] The princpal figure outside the temple is a life-size statue of Akshobya who is represented squatted under the Bodhi tree in the same manner as the ascetic Buddha with the left hand in the lap and the right hand hanging over the knee.