Note 64 — Tyanḍi Båråbudur.

Till 1896 I also thought that these small Buddha images, we see in the crown, characterised the wearers as Bodhisattvas, that is, the Bodhisattvas of the Dhyâni-Buddhas whose small images were hewn in the crowns. The king of Siam denied this. Because of his being a buddhistic prince himself he also wore such small images in his crown. Moreover, I never saw another image in these crowns, except the one with the two hands in his lap, which is to signify the mudrâ dhyâna or meditation, a posture the Mahâyânists gave to the fourth Dhyâni-Buddha, Amitâbha, the Redeemer of this world. If now these small images were to characterise Dhyâni-Bodhisattvas, why, another Bodhisattva but Padmapâni the fourth, would have been never hewn.