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The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c11.5

The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c11.5

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English

c11.5

¹ Boro-Budur is commonly ascribed to the IXth Century, and Angkor-Vat to the XIIth. The leaning walls of the Javanese Stûpa threaten ruin to such a degree that the Government-General of the Dutch East Indies has been moved thereby. The friends of archæology will learn with pleasure that a first grant of 60,000 florins (about £ 5,000) is at present being devoted to works of preservation under the expert direction of Major VAN ERP, of the Engineers.