The Chitral campaign : a narrative of events in Chitral, Swat, and Bajour . SCLLPTLKE FUUND AT RAN1i; OF BUDDHA FOUiND AT TAKHT-I-IiAGH. made this statue in Ranlghat must have seen thestatue of Demosthenes in Athens, have marchedwith Alexander across Persia, and have remainedbehind with others when Alexander went down the REMAINS 293 Indus ?—for we know that Alexander was in thehabit of planting colonies in the countries he in-vaded—or he may have fallen in love with thedaughter of the Buddhist priest, and have said like. SCULlTURE
The Chitral campaign : a narrative of events in Chitral, Swat, and Bajour . SCLLPTLKE FUUND AT RAN1i; OF BUDDHA FOUiND AT TAKHT-I-IiAGH. made this statue in Ranlghat must have seen thestatue of Demosthenes in Athens, have marchedwith Alexander across Persia, and have remainedbehind with others when Alexander went down the REMAINS 293 Indus ?—for we know that Alexander was in thehabit of planting colonies in the countries he in-vaded—or he may have fallen in love with thedaughter of the Buddhist priest, and have said like. SCULlTURE FOUND BY SURGEON-CATTAIN STOXEY AT TAKIIT-I-BAGH. Ruth, Thy gods shall be my gods, and thy peoplemy people. The hand was not found at Ranighat. Both itand this sculptured slab were found by Surgeon-Captain Stoney at Takht-i-Bagh near Mardan in1891. The slab evidently represents a ceremonyof initiation—Buddha sitting: cross-lee2:ed in themiddle under a lotus leaf in the usual attitude ofcontemplation, whilst a priest is pouring oil over 294 THE CHITRAL CAMPAIGN the head of the kneehng neophyte. Some of thefaces are very Greek in character. It probablyformed one of the steps of a shruie. The handalso is interesting. It is holding an alms bowl inwhich a snake is coiled up, and is the hand of aBuddha, for it is webbed up to the knuckles, andwe know from the Buddhistic writings that Buddhashands were said to be webbed. If the Kafirs arethe descendants of this ancient Buddhist race—andeverything points to the conclusion that they are—itis difficult to under
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