It is a piece of ivory or bone two inches long, and is kept in six cases, the largest of which, of solid silver, is five feet high.

The other cases are inlaid with rubies and precious stones.[95] Besides this, Ceylon possesses the "left collar-bone relic," contained in a bell-shaped tope, fifty feet high, and the thorax bone, which was placed in a tope built by a Hindoo Raja, B.C.250, beside which two others were subsequently erected, the last being eighty cubits high.

The Sanchi tope, the finest in India,[96] is a solid dome of stone, one hundred and six feet in diameter and forty-two feet high, with a basement and terrace, having a colonnade, now fallen, of sixty pillars, with richly carved stone railing and gateway.
The rock-cut temples of the Buddhists are very ancient, and are numerous in India.

Mr.Fergusson, who has made a special personal study of these monuments, believes that more than nine hundred still remain, most of them within the Bombay presidency.

Of these, many date back two centuries before our era.