[53]In Mr. A. Tissandier’s work “_Cambodge et Java_” published by Mason at Paris in 1896, we find opposite page 124 a good engraving of this last sculpture (picture XXVIII); but the author, who even dares maintain that this whole series has nothing to do with Buddhism, says that it represents a young, richly diademed Hindu worshipping the bull (the _nandi_) of Shiva! By so much ignorance Tissandier blames his work, and ... himself. Striving we may err, but let us at any case _strive_ after science within reach. [54]I thought we should not think here of the mythical subterranean serpents, but of a likewise called and fabulous tribe. But Mr. Foucher didn’t agree with me. The _nâgas_, he said, are generally hewn as serpents, but often as men with snaky hair. [55]In the “Bijdragen van ’t Koninklijk Instituut” of 1907. [56]Those who desire to know more about the deeper, mythical sense of these _jâtakas_ are kindly referred to professor Speyer’s essay or my “_Een karma-legende_” provided with 6 photo’s of the photographer _A. Winter_, published by the firm H. van Ingen at Surabaya. [57]See at the bottom of this page. [58]The _Jâtakamâlâ_ V, 15, tells us that the clouds “weeped like _water-jars turned about_.” [59]See my above mentioned “_Karma legende_”. [60]The difficulties we meet by placing the camera in the narrow space there is between the front and back-walls of the galleries have not yet been wholly obviated. Yet, it would be advisable to do what has turned out to be possible before that the sculptures should be lost for ever. [61]In the _Ceylon_ pagoda at _Kelany_ I saw the Buddhists perform the _sĕmbah_ in the very same manner as done by the Javanese, and _Siam_’s king and queen when on the _Båråbudur_ and in _tyanḍi Mĕndut_, and in the same manner I saw this mark of veneration hewn on all the buddhistic imageries known to me. Perhaps, it was the Buddhists who once introduced this _sĕmbah_ in Java. [62]See my illustrated work “_In den Kĕdaton te Jogjåkartå_” published in 1888 by _E. J. Brill_ at _Leyden_, picture II, and the IXth. photo of my illustrated work “_De garĕbĕgs te Jogjåkartå_” (published by the “_Royal Institute_” in 1895). [63]At _Parambanan_ and _Pĕlahosan_ we already knew these deities to be _Bodhisattvas_. (See my above mentioned works: “_Tyanḍi Parambanan na de ontgraving_” and “_Boeddhistische tempel-en kloosterbouwvallen in de Parambanan vlakte_”.) Some time before the digging up of _Parambanan_ Mr. Groeneveldt wrote to me: “The theory as if these sculptures should represent known princes we must give up.” Çiva was one of the lokiçvaras of the Buddha-pantheon, and we know even other brahmin deities to have been admitted into this. Such is also the case with the holy queens of Leemans’ work who are _Târâs_ or _Çaktis_ (wives or powers of deities).