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[[underlined]] Chapter IV. [[/underlined]]     61.

to have been affected to some extent by that Indian influence then so strong in China. [[superscript]] (41) [[/superscript]] The idea of employing stone tortoises as supports
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[[superscript]] (41) [[/superscript]] For instance, the famous founder of the Dynasty, Liang Wu Ti, was, as is well known, a devout Buddhist; [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] in his reign it was that Bodhidharma (the Chinese Ta-mo 達摩), the Twenty-eighth Patriarch of Buddhism, is said to have transferred his seat from India to China.
  At the museum in Columbo, Ceylon, I subsequently saw a fine stone lion from the ancient capital, Anuradhapura, which though more ornate and considerably later than the Liang lions, nevertheless reminded me of them somewhat.
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for stelae itself appears to have its roots in some of the concepts of Indian cosmology.
  Some of the sculptures which we saw here still stood nearly or quite upright. Others had fallen or been overturned, and lay partly embedded in the soil. Thus in one place we came upon the fragmentary remains of what must once have been a magnificent lion figure, now badly broken, much weatherworn, and almost buried in the ground. In yet other cases the absence of carvings from the places which they might have been expected to occupy [[superscript]] (42) [[/superscript]] made us suspect that they had been
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[[superscript]] (42) [[/superscript]] See the following paragraph.
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completely hidden in the earth---either borne slowly downward by their own enormous weight or else covered by the downwash from the neighboring ridges and slopes.  That our surmise in this regard was well founded in one instance at least was shown later, when peasants tilling their fields encountered and partly uncovered one of the great stone tortoises characteristic of this series of monuments.

[[underlined]] Arrangement of the Sculptures [[/underlined]]

We found no trace of grave-mounds, although such perhaps originally existed; natural erosion and the leveling effect of long continued