BUDDHIST RELICS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 21 March 1910, Page 5

BUDDHIST RELICS.

PRESENTATION TO BURMA.

Pees 3 Association.—Copyright.

(Received March 21, 9.15 a.m.) CALCUTTA, Sunday,

Lord Minto, Viceroy, has presented a golden casket, containing relics of Buddha, recently discovered at' Peshawur, to the Burmese Delegation. The Viceroy expressed a hope that pilgrims would visit Mandalay from all parts of the world.

(The casket was unearthed by Government excavators on the site of an ancient city. It is cylinlrical, about 4in. in diameter, and is ornamented with a frieze of figures round the outside, and three small statuettes upon the top. It contains three or four pieces of human 'bone. No doub: as to to the genuineness of the relics is held either by Buddhists or by European authorities. At Kandy, Ceylon, therejs an alleged tooth of Buddha, which is, in fact, a piece of ivory about 3in. long, the original tooth having 'been ground up and burnt by the Portuguese in .the 17th century. The new and undoubtedly genuine nficishould'have a serious effect on the fame of the alleged tooth. Buddha is generally held to have lived about 500 8.C.)