THE BUDDHA.
■ FURTHER RELICS FOUND. ■/ By Tpieeraph— Ytem Asßociation-Cooyrleht . (Rec.' March 22, 9.50 p.m.) . ; ,' Calcutta, March 22. ■'■ Mr. Cousens,' superintendent of archaeology in Bombay, has explored mounds forty miles east of Haidarabad containing Buddhist monasteries. Hβ excavated a shrine and found a crystal bottle containing >a silver, casket, enclosing a golden' cylinder wherein was a gold cup with fragments of human ash, evidently one of the nine portions of Gautama's. cremated remains! . '■.-,;.'.. . . [In yesterday's issue we published an, interesting accbiint of the .discovery of remains of. Gautama Buddha near Peshawar. It is a well-attested fact that on the death of the : Buddha his body 'was burned, the relics were distributed among a number of. contending claimants, and monumental, tumuli were erected to preserve them;]
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 773, 23 March 1910, Page 7
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124THE BUDDHA. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 773, 23 March 1910, Page 7
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