The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c9.48

c9.48

(1) Journal asiatique, Jan.-Feb. 1909.
(2) That there is no lack of opportunity for these confusions we find proved at once in Une poésie inconnue du roi Harṣa Çilâditya, restored from Chinese transcription by M. S. LÉVI (Actes du Xe Congrès int. des Orient., 1894, I, p. 188, Leiden, 1895) and entitled « Hymn to the Eight Great Caityas », which enumerates still more. The « eight reliquaries » of stanza 5, followed by the stûpas of the « urn » and the « ashes », are evidently the 8 + 2 stûpas of the Mahâparinibbâna-sutta, VI, 62, and have nothing to do with the « eight great caityas » of the title.