[231] The cubit of Ceylon is nearly 2 ft. 3 in.
[232] In the photographs it is called an altar, which it certainly was not.
[233] ‘Tree and Serpent Worship,’ pl. 19. In some respects it resembles the Woodcuts Nos. 34 and 35.
[234] Since the drawing was made from which this cut is taken, it has been thoroughly repaired and made as unlike what it was as can well be conceived.
[235] ‘Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal’ for March, 1847, p. 218.
[236] ‘Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society,’ vol. iii. p. 474, and ‘Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society,’ vol. xiii. p. 168.
[237] I am afraid this is no longer true. From what I learn, I fear it has been repaired.
[238] ‘Mahawanso,’ Turnour’s translation, p. 163.
[239] Loc. cit., p. 235.
[240] At Amravati the Zoophorus ([Woodcut No. 36]) consisted of the same animals, I believe, but it is not complete, no fragment of the horse having been brought home, and generally, it seems that this limited menagerie is to be found in all Buddhist works.