RELICS OF BUDDHA.
A FURTHER DISCOVERY
United Press Association —Copyright
(Received 1 March 22, 9.50 p.m) . CALCUTTA, March 22
Mr. Oousens, Superintendent of Archeology at explored mounds 40 miles cast of Hyderabad, containing the ruins of Buddhist monasteries. He excavated a shrine, and found a crystal bottle containing a silver casket enclosing a golden cylinder, wherein was a gold cup with fragments of human ash, evidently one of the nine portions of Gautama’s cremated, remains.
[A similar relic was recently found near Peshawar, and has been handed' over to tli© Buddhists of Burma.]
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2767, 23 March 1910, Page 5
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93RELICS OF BUDDHA. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2767, 23 March 1910, Page 5
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