A BUDDHIST SHRINE.
A VALUABLE FIND. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Received March 22, 10 p.m. Calcutta, March '?>. Professor Consens, the Superintendent of Archaeology at Bombay, explored mounds forty miles east of Hyderabad, containing Buddhist monasteries, and excavated a shrine, which he found in a crystal bottle containing a silver casket, and 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. It is a well-attested fact that on the death of Gautama Buddha his body was burned, the relics were distributed among a number of contending claim' ants, and monumental tumuli were erected to preserve them. Among the many monuments mentioned by Ilieun Tsang and other Chinese pilgrims ot the early centuries of our era, by *ar the most famous and magnificent was the great pagoda or stupa at Purushapura of the Kushan Emperor Kan ishka, wherein holy relics of Gautama were enshrined. The monastery attached to the stupa was considered to be almost, if not quite, the most important in India.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 346, 23 March 1910, Page 5
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174A BUDDHIST SHRINE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 346, 23 March 1910, Page 5
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