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 Dhamnar in Malwa.
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.)
["The temple, in which M. Polo saw an idol of Buddha, represented in a
lying position, is evidently Wo-fo-sze, i.e. 'Monastery of the lying
Buddha.' It was built in 1103 by a Tangut queen, to place there three
idols representing Buddha in this posture, which have since been found in
the ground on this very spot." (Palladius, l.c. p. 10.)
Rubruck (p. 144) says, "A Nestorian, who had come from Cathay told me that
in that country there is an idol so big that it can be seen from two days
off." Mr. Rockhill (Rubruck, p. 144, note) writes, "The largest stone
image I have seen is in a cave temple at Yung kan, about 10 miles
north-west of Ta t'ung Fu in Shan-si.
