[2]See my illustrated work published in 1893 by “_het Koninklijk Instituut voor de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde van N. I._” entitled: “_Tyanḍi Parambanan na de ontgraving_” and therein the photo’s of many deities represented as _Bodhisatthvas_, and my “_Boeddhistische tempel- en klooster-bouwvallen in de Parambanan-vlakte_”. Surabaya 1907. [3]In the Buddha pagodae I visited in _Ceylon_, at Colombo and its environs, I saw badly hewn or coloured images of _Shiva_ and of _Ganesja_. The monks called these images the representations of _Buddha_. [4]See the English translation of his “_Record of the Buddhist Religion as practised in India and the Malay Archipelago_ (A. D. 671-695)” by the Japanese scholar I Takakusu., provided with a preface of prof Max Müller and published by the Clarendon press at Oxford in 1896. Pages XXII, XXV, XXXIX and XLVIII of the “_General Introduction_.” [5]In a temple at _Kandy_ in Ceylon is kept a tooth which, though of animal origin, took the place of a former so-called _Buddha_-tooth which has been destroyed by fire. This tooth, named _Dalada_, is taken care of, and honoured too. And the holiest pagoda in this island, the _Thuparama_, possesses one of Buddha’s clavicles, according to the assertion of its believers certainly with as much right as the Catholic Christians maintain the genuineness of many a relic of Jesus and the apostles. [6]Even the ashes of other saints, princes and noble men, of gurus or teachers, of priests or monks, were occasionally put away in such graves upon which arose the glorious mausolea the ruins of which we still admire at this day. [7]It won’t do maintaining that these dagobs should have been formed after the lotus, the holy _padma_, and that its openings in the transparent dagobs on the round terraces above the Båråbudur must represent the empty seed-holes of the nursery of the ripe lotus. The leaves of a lotus (_Nelumbium speciosum Willd_) fall off before bending downward, and then the pericarp only remains on its stem like a _urned_ cone or cupola whose flat, uprighted and afterwards, by the sagging of the withering stem, downrighted base has been stung by the seed-holes. _Not_ the bell-shaped sides, for they remain closed. So these openings must have quite another sense than the one derived from the natural form of the lotus-plant. Only the _red_ lotus, the _Nelumbium speciosum_ referring to all this, and recognisable by its peduncles and leaf stalks rising high above the water, has been frequently represented on Hindu temples. But not the _white_ lotus, the _Nymphae Lotus Linn._, the leaves and flowers of which are floating on the surface of the water.