A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s7.24

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¹ The name Boro-Būdūr means ‘the many Buddhas’ (cf. Sanskrit, *Bṛihad-devatā*). The older books give erroneous interpretations. The building, although apparently a staged pyramid, is really constructed on the plan of a circular *stūpa*, all the angles being inscribed in circles. The so-called ‘second gallery’, designed to be the first, became the second when the original plinth was encased in a structure of later masonry. The literary works illustrated by the reliefs all belong to the *Mūla-Sarvāstivādin* school of Buddhism, to which the seventh-century pilgrim I-tsing adhered (Foucher, ‘Notes d’archéologie bouddhique,’ *B. E. F. E. O.*, Janv.–Mars, 1909, pp. 1–50).