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represent the carrying of Lord Buddha by the dancers
to the celestial regions. Another scene is of Lord Bud-
dha on horseback. In the Na Phra Naral sanctuary
are some Brahmanic statues in bronze. One of them
is Ganesa^ bearing an inscription in Tamil character.
The grotto of Yala was transformed into a Bud-
dhist cave, where numerous images of Buddha, sitting
mdhyana (meditation) posture, are found.1 On the
earthen bowls were engraved images of Buddha and
profession of the Buddhistic faith in the Sanskrit lan-
guage. A few inscriptions are also in Thai character.
In the Province Wellesly three inscriptions, going
back to the fourth century A. D., have been discover-
ed. The Hakara placed on the wall of the old Por-
tuguese church, where the body of Francis Xavier
was deposited, shows it to be in effect an old temple.1
An image of Siva was found at Takua Pa.8 At
Khao Phra Narai (the mountain of Visiju) is a great
stele on which are sculptured en haut relief three per-
sonages* Siva seems to be in the middle, and on two
sides are two celestial dancers. The dress, profusion
of jewels, elegant movement of the body show the ar-
tist to be of Indo-Dravidian School. On one side is
an inscription in six lines in an archaic character.
In a fragment of stele of Mergui, is an inscription
with the figure of a seated Buddha. The character in
1. Ibid, i>L V, Fig. 12. 2. IWd, p. 232
3, Ibid—Le domaine Archeologique duSiam (1909,
p. 188).