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EARLY MONUMENTS
4S
In front of it Asoka had placed a memorial column,
about 70 feet high, polished like a mirror, "so that all
those who pray fer-
vently before it see
from time to time, ac-
cording to their peti-
tions, figures with good
or bad signs ''. An-
other stupa close by
marked the place where
the five disciples sat
in meditation in the
Isapattana Deer-park,
when they reached it
after their desertion of
Buddha in the Vind-
hyan mountains. Hiuen
Thsang adds that there
was a multitude of
sacred monuments
within the enclosure of
the Deer-park monas-
tery, and describes
many tanks and stupas
round about it.
The systematic ex-
plorations, commenced
last year at Sarnath by
the Archaeological De-
partment, have given a wonderful actuality to Hiuen
Thsang's description. In 1794 some workmen, em-
ployed by Jagat Singh, Diwan of the Rajah of Benares,
to quarry bricks from the ruins at Sarnath, hit upon a
MODEL OF A NEPALESE BUDDHIST
TEMPLE
4S
In front of it Asoka had placed a memorial column,
about 70 feet high, polished like a mirror, "so that all
those who pray fer-
vently before it see
from time to time, ac-
cording to their peti-
tions, figures with good
or bad signs ''. An-
other stupa close by
marked the place where
the five disciples sat
in meditation in the
Isapattana Deer-park,
when they reached it
after their desertion of
Buddha in the Vind-
hyan mountains. Hiuen
Thsang adds that there
was a multitude of
sacred monuments
within the enclosure of
the Deer-park monas-
tery, and describes
many tanks and stupas
round about it.
The systematic ex-
plorations, commenced
last year at Sarnath by
the Archaeological De-
partment, have given a wonderful actuality to Hiuen
Thsang's description. In 1794 some workmen, em-
ployed by Jagat Singh, Diwan of the Rajah of Benares,
to quarry bricks from the ruins at Sarnath, hit upon a
MODEL OF A NEPALESE BUDDHIST
TEMPLE