Section 563 Relic Stupa Underground Palace
The information on the tablets is also recorded in the Buddhist scripture "The Great Nirvana Sutra".
However, the Great Nirvana Sutra was written in the 2~3rd century.
The ancient characters of the stone tablets were engraved in the 4th and 5th centuries B.C., 6 or 700 years earlier than the Great Nirvana Sutra.
The information recorded on the slate should be more accurate, and according to the comparison with the slate, there are some errors and omissions in the "Great Nirvana Sutra" about the Buddha's Nirvana experience.
Back to business.
The king, who received the relics of the Buddha, came from the establishment of stupas to place offerings to these relics of the Buddha.
Chen Rui got 4 Buddha statues, 3 Bodhisattva statues, and 4 stone blocks from the stupa established by Vaishali at that time.
The next day.
Chen Rui came to the place where Falkland Road was yesterday.
The stall owner has been waiting here for a long time, if Chen Rui did not promise the 300,000 rupees yesterday, he will definitely not be able to see him here today, India is not a trustworthy nation.
The stall owner said, "Hey, you're finally here, I've been waiting for you for a long time, let's go, my family lives in the suburbs, it's far from here, it's 2 hours by motorbike." After speaking, he walked to a motorcycle, got on the motorcycle, started the motorcycle and drove it to Chen Rui, and said, "Get in the car, I'll take you over." β
Chen Rui said, "No, let's take a taxi, I'll pay the fare, and your motorcycle will stay here." β
"Okay." The stall owner happily agreed.
Chen Rui hailed a taxi.
The two got into a taxi.
The stall owner gave the taxi a place name.
In the car, Chen Rui briefly chatted with the stall owner.
Only then did Chen Rui know the name of the stall owner, Moraba. Sisi.
Sisi. sethiγ A relatively common surname. It is the meaning of the releaser.
Looking at the caste by the surname, Chen Rui guessed that Moraba. The caste of Sisi is Vaishya, the third class of the Hindu caste hierarchy, which includes ordinary Aryans who are engaged in agriculture, animal husbandry, and commerce, among other things.
The guess should be more accurate.
Because India is a country with a very high level of rigidity, everyone determines the nobility and humility of their status from birth.
From Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas to Shudras, with the further differentiation of society. Caste was formed as a system in which the Brahmins monopolized religious affairs, and some of them participated in political affairs, forming a sacrificial class that occupied the highest rank in the caste.
The second class of castes was the Kshatriya, a class of warriors who held military and political power.
Ordinary Aryans who were engaged in agriculture, animal husbandry, and commerce, etc., were called Vaishyas, and they were the third class of castes.
The lowest caste rank is the Shudra,
The Manu Code provides that the upper castes may engage in the occupations of the lower castes because of "poverty"; The lower castes, on the other hand, are not allowed to engage in the occupations of the higher castes, and the men of the upper castes are allowed to marry the daughters of the lower castes because of their "greed"; Opposite. A man of a lower caste is not allowed to marry a daughter of a higher caste. The former is called "obedient marriage", and the latter is called "reverse marriage".
After India's independence, the caste system was abolished, and the constitution clearly stipulated that class discrimination was not allowed, but Indian society still retains the remnants of the caste system, which has left a deep imprint on every Indian, in fact, the Brahmins, the highest caste hierarchy, are less than 4% of the population, but occupy 70% of the judicial power and nearly half of the parliamentary seats.
Rental came to Moraba. The village of Sethi.
Moraba. Sisi's ancestors may have been a businessman, but, now he is a farmer, but, is there a difference? Farmers and merchants belonged to the same class of Vaishyas.
After getting out of the taxi, Chen Rui paid the fare.
Moraba. Saisi took Chen Rui into the village.
At noon, Moraba. The Sisi family entertained Chen Rui with pancakes, potato curry, fish curry, lamb curry, and pilaf.
After eating, take a break.
Moraba. Saisi took Chen Rui to dig out the stone Buddha statue and the stone slab.
It is a small hillside, and the hillside is planted with potatoes, peanuts.
Moraba. Sisi said that this small hillside is their family's land, and the potatoes and peanuts on it are grown by their family.
Stone Buddha statues, stone Buddha statues, and stone slabs were dug up when he was digging the aqueduct.
Chen Rui took a turn near the hillside, and suddenly had a number in his heart.
The tower bricks half-buried in the soil around, the steps that expose a corner, and the base of the tower buried in the soil, all show that this is the relics stupa established by Vaisha leaving the country to worship the relics of Buddha Shakyamuni Buddha.
At around 3 p.m., Chen Rui left the place and paid Moraba. Sisi Rs 400,000.
In the evening, Chen Rui came here again.
Escape into the ground.
The foundation of the relics, the tower bricks buried in the soil, and the steps were nowhere to hide in Chen Rui's eyes.
Chen Rui found more than a dozen stone slabs in the ground that were the same as the four stone slabs in Chen Rui's hand, and these stone slabs were speculated to be part of the stone tablet of the relic, recording some deeds about the relics and the relics of the Buddha.
Chen Rui continued to walk through the underground of the Relic Pagoda, and suddenly, he found that he had penetrated the soil layer and came to an underground space.
This should be the secret room of the underground palace of the Relic Pagoda, and Chen Rui just penetrated the soil layer to reach the first door of the underground palace.
Chen Rui took out a flashlight, and the light of the flashlight shone on the door of the underground palace, and a lion relief was clearly visible on the door.
Chen Rui carefully pushed open the secret door of the underground palace, a musty smell came to his face, inside the door is a dark tunnel, the wall is black marble splicing, because of the age, the stone wall presents a unique mottling, on the east side of the stone wall, Chen Rui has a new discovery, the stone wall is engraved with words, the text is engraved.
At the end of the tunnel, two stone tablets entered Chen Rui's line of sight, the stone tablets were made of black marble, and the inscriptions were still clearly legible under the flashlight, and the words on the previous four stone tablets were the same, Chen Rui did not recognize the words on them.
Chen Rui removed the stele.
Another door appeared in front of Chen Rui's eyes, and on the left and right sides of the stone door, a beautiful Bodhisattva statue was carved on each side.
Chen Rui gently pushed the door open.
Once inside, the ground is paved with precious stones such as gold, silver, agate, pearl, amberite, malachite, turquoise, etc.
At the end of the front room, a white marble pagoda stands quietly in a corner, about 80 centimeters high, with exquisite painted reliefs on all sides, the tower cover, the tower stop, the tower body, and the tower base are all well preserved.
Chen Rui found another stone door behind the white marble pagoda, and there must be a secret room behind the door.
Chen Rui opened the third door of the underground palace, there was a square space behind the door, the scene inside shocked Chen Rui, it was full of cultural relics, gold, silver, gemstones, in the pile of gold, silver and gemstones, there was a white jade spirit tent, the white jade spirit tent was very finely carved, and there was a secret niche.
Hidden in the niche was a parcel with a treasure letter inside. (To be continued.) )