WONDERFUL MARBLE BIBLE.
I Great as has been the amount of labour expended on the various ' Bibles of the world, the palm for execution (says the "Tatler") must be given to the Kutho-daw, which is a Buddhist monument near Mandalay in Burmah. } It consists of about a hundred ': temples, each containing a slab of ! white marble on which the whole of ! the Buddhists' Bible, consisting of I more than 8,000,000 syllable*, has ! been engraved. ! The Burmese alphabet is used, but ] the language is Pali. This wonderful : Bible is absolutely unique. The I Kutho-daw was erected in 1857 by j Mindon-Min, the last king but one iof Burmah. The vast collection of j temples together form a square, with ! a dominating temple in the centre. ! Each of the marble slabs on which : the sacred texts are inscribed is suri mounted by an ormental canopy. j
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1984, 16 April 1906, Page 7
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