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Ratanabimbavamsa of Brahmarajapanna (written at
SirijanSlaya in tie Mabrldharnmarajabbata monastery)
and {''2) Amarakatabuddhar^panidana of Ariyavamsa.
These works had perhaps an Indian source from
which they drew their inspiration. They were
composed perhaps towards the end of the fifteenth
century.
Ariyavamsa was also the author of Addhabha-
gabuddiiarupanidana, which relates the avatars of
another statue of Buddha.
Another Pali work composed in Siam, is Sahgi-
tivamsa, which was written by Vimaladhamma in
i7s9.:
It is quite natural to expect that with the com-
ing of Indian artists and Indian style of-art and scul-
pture in Siara, some Indian books dealing with art
and sculpture should also be inrtoduced into Siam,
One such book, known as Buddha laksana> perhaps,
had been brought over to Siam. It gives "the more
or less orthodox peculiarities of the characteristics
of the body," of images. We donot know whether
this Bitdd/ia-laksanz has been properly edited and
published. In Siam, however, these peculiarities
of the images as laid down by this book, are not
always followed. We knoxv that king Phra Nangklao
thouglit it ' a work of merit to shorten the fingers
of the statue of the Sakyamuni preserved now in Wat
Sudas (anadevfi^ma) in Bangkok.'
^1) M. 0. Ccede's article iii B.E.F.E.-0. 1915.