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“By him this beautiful mansion of the Teacher of mankind, who overcame the power of (the god) Smara, dazzling white as the rays of the moon with an open pavilion on all sides, has been caused to be made at the exalted Bodhi-maṇḍa” (also called Vajrāsana,¹ the miraculous throne under the Bodhi tree at Bodh-Gaya, on which Buddha sat, when attaining Bodhi or perfect wisdom).
(Bodh-Gaya Inscrip. of Mahanaman, lines 10-11, C.I.I. vol. III. F. G. I. no. 71, pp. 276, 278, 275; also Sanskrit and Old Canarese Inscrip. no. 166, Bodh-Gaya inscrip. of Mahanaman, line 10 f., Ind. Ant. vol. xv. pp. 358, 359).