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DHĀTU-GARBHA—Buddhist dagoba, same as chaitya and as stūpa, the relic receptacle or inner shrine, and is ‘strictly applicable only to the dome of the stūpa, sometimes called the *aṇḍa* or egg.’ These monuments were ‘not merely relics in the literal sense, but memorials in an extended acceptation, and were classified as corporeal remains; objects belonging to the teacher, as his staff, bowl, robe holy spots, etc., and any memorial, text of a sacred book, cenotaph of a teacher, etc.’