The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c11.s1.169

c11.s1.169

The Museum of Batavia. — We have just spoken of a kind of general confrontation of the Buddhist statues of Java. The material would not be lacking, in spite of the relatively restricted number of Buddhist monuments in the island. Many of them have already been brought together, both in a building near to the residency of Jogyakarta and in the museum of the Asiatic Society of Batavia. Of the first collection a catalogue has been published by Dr. Groneman. The most interesting objects to be mentioned in the second are some inscribed images of the Dhyâni-Buddhas Akshobhya (no. 224) and Ratnasambhava (no. 225), of the çakti Locanâ (no. 248*), of Târâ in the form of Bhṛikuṭi (no. 112*), of Hayagrîva (no. 76*), etc. Every one will appreciate the interest of these names (¹), taken at hasard from our notes on the lapidary museum.