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The Siamese, who are now in possession of the temple, have introduced images of Buddha into the sanctuaries and other places, and, ‘with the usual incuriousness of people of their class, assert (in Siamese records) that it was always so.’² The unfounded traditions of Asoka having sent missionaries to Cambodia and of Aśwagosha’s having visited the place, as also the account of a Chinese traveller,³ who saw the country with Buddhist spectacles, in 1295–1297, have lent colour to the Siamese records.