Painful it certainly is, to one who realises the immense significance of this spot in the history of Asia and of humanity, to wander round the precincts of the holy tree, and to see scores and hundreds of broken sculptures lying about in the jungle or on the brickheaps. . . numberless beautiful broken stones tossed aside, cut into Buddhas and Bodhisats with a skill often quite admirable ... a whole pile of selected fragments — five or six cartloads — lying in dust and darkness, the very first of which, when examined, bore the Buddhist formula of faith, and the second was an exquisite bas-relief of Buddha illustrating the incident of the mad elephant who worshipped him."[Zitiert in: Allen, Charles : The search for the Buddha : the men who discovered India's lost religion . -- London ; Murray, ©2002. -- ISBN 0-7195-5425-X. -- S. 193; Bild: ebd. Pl. 1]