s.Some such rude metaphor isprobably embodied in these largeimages. I have described one 69feet long in Burma (representedin the cut), but others exist ofmuch greater size, though pro-bably none equal to that whichHiuen Tsang, in the 7th century,saw near Bamian, which was1000 feet in length ! I… … Colossal Figure, Buddha entering Nirvana. <Et si bos oi quil ont bt yoxcs qvtc srmt granthix pas. . . . Ccstc grant gbtts fluent. . . . 374 p. 52 ; V. et V. de II. T., p. 374 : CunninghamsArc/uzl. Reports, 11. 274; Tod, ii. 273.) [ The temple, in which M. Polo saw an idol of Buddha, represented…
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