Thus At Taxila A Man Set
His Son Against A Board, And Then Threw Darts Tracing The Outline Of The
Boy's Figure On The Board.
This feat was shown in London some fifteen or
twenty years ago, and humorously commemorated in Punch by John Leech.
(Philostratus, Fr. Transl. Bk. III. ch. xv. and xxvii.; Mich. Glycas,
Ann. II. 156, Paris ed.; Delrio, Disquis. Magic. pp. 34, 100; Koeppen,
I. 31, II. 82, 114-115, 260, 262, 280; Vassilyev, 156; Della Penna,
36; S. Setzen, 43, 353; Pereg. Quat. 117; I. B. IV. 39 and 290
seqq.; Asiat. Researches, XVII. 186; Valentyn, V. 52-54; Edward
Melton, Engelsch Edelmans, Zeldzaame en Gedenkwaardige Zee en Land Reizen,
etc., aangevangen in den Jaare 1660 en geendigd in den Jaare 1677,
Amsterdam, 1702, p. 468; Mem. of the Emp. Jahangueir, pp. 99, 102.)
[Illustration: Grand Temple of Buddha at LHASA]
NOTE 12. - ["The maintenance of the Lamas, of their monasteries, the
expenses for the sacrifices and for transcription of sacred books,
required enormous sums. The Lamas enjoyed a preponderating influence, and
stood much higher than the priests of other creeds, living in the palace
as if in their own house. The perfumes, which M. Polo mentions, were used
by the Lamas for two purposes; they used them for joss-sticks, and for
making small turrets, known under the name of ts'a-ts'a; the joss-sticks
used to be burned in the same way as they are now; the ts'a-ts'a were
inserted in suburgas or buried in the ground.
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