[295] Just as a Vedic sacrifice was performed in the court of the temple of Chidambaram about 1908.
[296] Aymonier, Cambodja, I. p. 442.
[297] Śâstâ sounds like a title of Śâkyamuni, but, if Aymonier is correct, the personage is described as a Bodhisattva. There were pagoda slaves even in modern Burma.
[298] See Coedès, "La Stèle de Tép Praṇaṃ," in J.A. XI. 1908, p. 203.
[299] Inscrip. of Ta Prohm, B.E.F.E.O. 1906, p. 44.
[300] See Senart in Revue Archéologique, 1883. As in many inscriptions it is not always plain who is speaking but in most parts it is apparently the minister promulgating the instructions of the king.
[301] Inscript. of Prasat Prah Khse, Corpus, I. p. 173.
[302] Buddhânâm agraṇîr api, J.A. XX. 1882, p. 164.
[303] See Coedès, "Inscriptions de Bàt Cuṃ," in J.A. XII. 1908, pp. 230, 241.
[304] The Bodhisattva corresponding to the Buddha Akshobhya. He is green or blue and carries a thunderbolt. It seems probable that he is a metamorphosis of Indra.