NOTE 2.–This is the meaning of the phrase in the G. T.: ‘_Ceste grande
ydre_ gigent,’ as may be seen from Ramusio”s _giaciono distesi_. Lazari
renders the former expression, ‘giganteggia un idolo,’ etc., a phrase very
unlike Polo. The circumstance is interesting, because this recumbent
Colossus at Kanchau is mentioned both by Hajji Mahomed and by Shah Rukh”s
people. The latter say: ‘In this city of Kanch?there is an Idol-Temple
500 cubits square. In the middle is an idol lying at length which measures
50 paces. The sole of the foot is nine paces long, and the instep is 21
cubits in girth. Behind this image and overhead are other idols of a cubit
(?) in height, besides figures of _Bakshis_ as large as life. The action
of all is hit off so admirably that you would think they were alive.’
These great recumbent figures are favourites in Buddhist countries still,
e.g. in Siam, Burma, and Ceylon. They symbolise Sakya Buddha entering
_Nirvna_. Such a recumbent figure, perhaps the prototype of these, was
seen by Hiuen Tsang in a Vihara close to the Sl Grove at Kusingara,
where Sakya entered that state, i.e. died. The stature of Buddha was, we
are told, 12 cubits; but Brahma, Indra, and the other gods vainly tried to
compute his dimensions. Some such rude metaphor is probably embodied in
these large images. I have described one 69 feet long in Burma
(represented in the cut), but others exist of much greater size, though
probably none equal to that which Hiuen Tsang, in the 7th century, saw
near Bamian, which was 1000 feet in length! I have heard of but one such
image remaining in India, viz. in one of the caves at Dhamnr in Mlwa.
This is 15 feet long, and is popularly known as ‘Bhim”s Baby.’ (_Cathay_,
etc., pp. cciii., ccxviii.; _Mission to Ava_, p. 52; _V. et V. de H. T._,
p. 374: _Cunningham”s Archael. Reports_, ii. 274; _Tod_, ii. 273.)
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