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*Cf.* ‘Again, when the people make images and chaityas which consist of gold, silver, copper, iron, earth, lacquer, bricks, and stone, or (? and) when they heap up the snowy sand (lit. sand-snow, ? ābhāsa), they put in images or chaityas two kinds of śarīras (relics)—(1) the relics of the great Teacher, and (2) the gāthā of the chain of causation’.—(Itsing’s work, *Record of the Buddhist Religion*, Transl., Takakusu, p. 150, quoted by V. A. Smith, *Ind. Ant.*, Vol. xxxii, p. 175.)