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 BUDDHIST ARCHITECTURE. BOOK I. place, having fallen into decay, was restored by the Burmese in the year 1105, and again in i2gS. 1 From the data these accounts afford us we gather that the building we now see before us (Woodcut No. 19) is substantially 19. Temple at Bodh-Gaya with Bo-tree. (From a Photograph by Mr. Peppe, C.E.) that erected in the 6th century, but the niches Hiuen Tsiang saw, containing golden statues of Buddha, cannot be those now existing most of the images round the basement are f l ' Asiatic Researches,' vol.xx. pp. 161- 189 ; Rajendralal Mitra, ' Buddha Gaya,' p. 209 ; Phayre's ' History of Burma,' p. 46 ; and 'Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,' vol. xxxvii. p. 97, note. Gen. Cunningham read the dates as equivalent to 1079 and 1086 A. D. ; ' Mahabodhi,' pp. 27, 28, and 77. But though a scholarly translation of the inscriptions has yet to be made, the readings of the Burmese or, Arakanese dates as 467 and 660 of their lj era, can hardly be questioned i.e. 1105 and 1298 A.D,