Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c12.s1.3

c12.s1.3

१. जुषस्व नः समिधमग्ने अद्य शोचा बृहद्यजतं धूममृण्वन्। उप स्पृश दिव्यं सानु स्तूपैः सं रश्मिभिस्ततनः सूर्यस्य॥
२. अबुध्ने राजा वरुणो वनस्योर्ध्वं स्तूपं ददते पूतदक्ष। नीचीनाः स्थुरुपरि बुध्न एषामस्मे अन्तर्निहिताः केतवः स्युः॥
३. हिरण्यस्तूपः सवितर्यथा त्वाङ्गिरसो जुह्वे वाजे अस्मिन्। एवा त्वाचंज्ञवेस वन्दमानः सोमस्य वांशुं प्रति जागराहम्॥ raised by Kshatriyas, viz. temporal powers, and the eighth by a Brāhmaṇa representing the spiritual authority of the Buddha. It means that the original Stūpa symbolism associated with the Buddha represented completely the two essential elements of his nature, viz. the Buddha as Chakravartī and the Buddha as Yogī which later on played an important part in the formulating of the Buddha’s image, i. e. sovereign ruler with Chhatra and Chāmara and a Yogic teacher of universal Dharma seated on diamond seat of Padmāsana.