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Today & Tomorrow's Printer & Publishers Changing Trends In Pollen Spore Research by Raju, A J S
Buddha Gaya is one of the fourholiest places of Buddhism. Here Buddha attained Enlightenmentafter having meditated for 49 days under the bodhi tree. In the 3rdcentury BC emperor Asoka built a shrine to makr this spot ofBuddha's sambodhi. a lter stone railing enclsing this shrinesurvives from the sunga period (ist century BC). Sanchi and Barhutdepict the shrine on several reliefs. The shrine was replaced bythe Mahabodhi temple begun in the Kushan period in the 2nd centuryAD. In the Pala-Sena period it was provided with statuary andrevetment. Burmese Buddhist began to restore it in 1877, but aproper scientific restoration was don eby Cunningham in 1882. The King of Burma deputed his officers to repair the temple.In course fo their work they started to renew the structures stickantiquarian heads foolishly onto ancient torsos, and the like. Forthe proper care of the antiquities and to control the operations ofBurman excavators Dr. Rajendralala Mitra visited Buddha Gaya in1877 in compliance with the wished of the LT. Governor of Bengal.He was the first to draw up maps, plans and to compile a record ofits archaeology. About Author : RajendraLala Mitra, LL.D., C.I.E. Honorary Member of theRoyal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and of thePhysical Class of the Iperial academy of sciences, Vienna;corresponding Member of the German and of the American OrientalSocieties of the Royal Academy of Science, of the Royal Society ofNorthern Antiquaries, Copenhagen, Etc., etc. Contents : Buddha Gay The Penance of Buddha Architectural Remains Sculptures Scultpres-concluded Inscriptions Chronology