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English: Identifier: ruinsofdesertcat01stei (find matches) CH. XL HEADS OF COLOSSAL BUDDHAS 455 from classical models. Even the wavy edges of the festoon-like plaits hanging from the arms were reproduced with exactness. It was impossible to doubt that the construction of this ruined temple dated back to a period long anterior to the Tibetan occupation. But that even its abandonment must have taken place centuries earlier became highly probable when I discovered in front of and close to the base of one statue a fragment about six inches long of a palm-leaf manuscript written in Sanskrit with Brahmi characters of an early Gupta type.The material showed that the Pothi-shaped manuscript, containing apparently a Buddhist metaphysical text, had been written in India; and, judging from the palaeo-graphical features of certain characters, it was safe toc onclude that it could not have been written later than the fourth century of our era, and pos |
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