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A short account of the Buddhist images is given in Chapter LVI. The Buddha image is measured in the large ten *tāla* and is thus of the superior type. He has a full face, a long nose, smiling eyes and elongated ears. His body is fleshy, his chest broad, his belly round, and his arms long. His complexion is white. He wears a yellow garment. He is furnished with the *ushṇīsha* or protuberance of the skull, which is a peculiar mark of Buddha. Another Buddhistic mark is the *aśvattha* or ficus religiosa, which, along with the *kalpa* or.mythic wonder-tree, is a characteristic feature of the thrones on which Buddhist figures are placed in an erect or sitting posture.