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 BUDDHIST ARCHITECTURE. BOOK I. 6 to 7 ft. in length, by about half that in breadth, and they are occupied at times up to the present day by Jogis whose bodies are constantly smeared with ashes. 1 "U up CELL 18. View and Plan of Jarasandha-ka-baithak. (From Cunningham, 'Archaeological Survey Report,' vol. iii. plate 42.) The other Bengal tope existing nearly entire, also known as Jarasandha-ka-baithak, is opposite to the village of Giriyek, about 6 miles east - north - east of the preceding. General Cunningham states its dimensions to be 28 ft. in diameter by 21 ft in height, resting on a basement 14 ft. high, so that its total height, when complete, may have been about 55 ft. As it was not mentioned by Fah Hian, A.D. 400, and is, apparently, by Hiuen Tsiang, A.D. 640, its age is probably, as General Cunningham states, intermediate between these dates, or about A.D. 5. 2 It is a bold, fine tower, evidently earlier than that at Sarnath, and showing nothing of the tendency towards Hindu forms there displayed. It has, too, the remains of a procession-path, or extended basement which is wholly want- ing at Sarnath, but which is always found in the earlier monu- ments. It was erected, as Hiuen Tsiang tells us, in honour of a Hama goose who devoted itself to relieve the wants of a starving community of Bhikshus. 3 The third stupa, if it may be so called, is the celebrated temple or, properly, chaitya at Bodh - Gaya, which stands 1 'Cave-Temples,' pp. 331". ; Cunning- ham, ' Archaeological Survey Report,' vol. i. p. 20 ; vol. iii. p. 142. 2 'Archaeological Survey Report,' vol. i. pp. 16-19, an d plate 15. 3 ' Hiouen Thsang,' torn. iii. p. 60; or Beal, 'Buddhist Records,' vol. ii. p. 181.