[52]See W. L., 121, 123 and 125 of the upper series of the back-wall.
[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.