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Examples of Hsuan-chwang
In Williams' Dictionary, under {.}, the characters, used here, are employed in the phrase for "to degrade an officer," that is, "to remove the token of his rank worn on the crown of his head;" but to place a thing on the crown is a Buddhistic form of religious homage.
The name of the province of Behar was given to it in consequence of its many viharas.
The mahayana school regard him as the apotheosis of perfect wisdom.
According to Eitel (pp. 71, 72), A famous Bodhisattva, now specially worshipped in Shan-se, whose antecedents are a hopeless jumble of history and fable.
He supposes this to be the pillar seen by Fa-hien, who mistook the top of it for a lion.
A note of Mr. Beal says on this:-"General Cunningham, who visited the spot (1862), found a pillar, evidently of the age of Asoka, with a well-carved elephant on the top, which, however, was minus trunk and tail.