From the Island Owner to the King

At a huge cost, the Japanese successfully took back the Tiancong Yunjian, an artifact in Japanese mythology and legend, from Chen Rui's hands.

The chief priest of Atsuta Shrine flew to Mumbai in person, ready to welcome back the Amangi Yunjian, accompanied by priests and priestesses, as well as the emperor's special envoy Yamada Yoshisuke, a direct member of the Japanese royal family.

The ceremony to welcome Tiancong Yunjian was very grand——

Chen Rui walks the streets of Mumbai.

Mumbai is the largest city in India and the sixth largest metropolitan area in the world.

The total GDP of Mumbai is about 145 billion US dollars, which is about 65% of Dinghai. Therefore, in recent years, the Indian authorities have proposed the urban development of "let the world forget Dinghai and remember Mumbai". Goals and slogans, in order to compete economically with mainland China.

Chen Rui travels around the world, and every time he goes to a place, he will learn about the local characteristic culture, customs, and customs. For Chen Rui, this is the meaning of travel.

Therefore, every time Chen Rui goes to a place, he will go to the remote part of the city and integrate into the ordinary people at the bottom of the society, so that he can really understand the most real side of this place——

Chen Rui came to Falkland Road in Mumbai.

Here is a mixed bag, with some ordinary people living at the bottom of the city.

The streets are chaotic. There are stalls on the ground selling fruit, pancakes, handicrafts, carpets, and ascetic people. They put up racks on the street, attracting passers-by. There are antiques. A lot of Buddha statues are piled up in a mess. statue. Antique cultural relics of Buddhist material.

It is very strange that India, as the four ancient civilizations, has very few cultural relics, except for Buddha statues, Bodhisattva statues, and cultural relics of Buddhist materials, there is really nothing.

The history of Indians is basically guessed by hood.

at an antiques stand. There are several Buddha statues, Bodhisattva statues, and several stone slabs, which attract Chen Rui's attention.

Chen Rui squatted down, picked up a Buddha statue and looked at it. It was a stone statue, somewhat mutilated, with an earthy color on the surface, and was full of small, uneven pores.

The face of this Buddha statue is a bit like the face of a Greek. The lips are thin and the eye sockets are deep. A Greek nose with a high nose with the bridge and forehead in a straight line.

Chen Rui has learned about Indian Buddhism before, and also has some understanding of the development and characteristics of Indian Buddha statues.

The Buddha statue in his hand is a Gandhara Buddha statue from the Gandhara region in the northwestern region of ancient India.

In 426 BC, the Macedonian king Alexander invaded the Gandhara region during his eastern expedition. From the time of Alexander, some Greek immigrant cities were established, and Hellenistic art was also brought to India. Hellenistic art was integrated with India. The symbol of Buddhism forms the Gandhara Buddha statue in Chen Rui's hands.

Chen Rui picked up another Buddha statue, which was also a Gandhara-shaped Buddha statue.

Chen Rui picked up a slate with writing on it, a very ancient writing in India, which Chen Rui could recognize.

Chen Rui put down the slate and asked the stall owner in English, "How much are these things?"

The stall owner is a middle-aged man with a beard and dark skin, wearing a pair of jeans, a black T-shirt, and a slipper on his feet.

The stall owner said to Chen Rui in strange Indian English, "This Buddha statue is 60,000 rupees, this Buddha statue is 47,000 rupees, this Bodhisattva statue is 54,000 rupees, and the four stone slabs are 77,000 rupees and 65,000 rupees respectively."

Hearing that, Chen Rui converted the price of US dollars according to the exchange rate of rupees in his heart. 1 US dollar is equal to 59 rupees, and 60,000 rupees is about more than 1,000 US dollars. The price of a stone Buddha statue about the size of a fist is more than 1,000 US dollars.

Chen Rui shook his head and said, "The price is too high. The carvings of these stone Buddha statues are very simple and the lines are very rough. I don't think it's worth the price."

The stall owner said to Chen Rui, "It's not expensive at all, I can guarantee that these are real." Speaking of which, the stall owner said "cultural relics" in Chinese, which means that these things are real cultural relics. .

Chen Rui asked, "How can you guarantee that these things are real cultural relics?"

The stall owner said, "I dug these things out of the ground."

Chen Rui said, "If you take me to the place where these things were dug up, I can buy them all at your price."

"Yes, but tomorrow." The stall owner thought about it and said.

"Okay." Chen Rui said.

The stall owner calculated the price and said, "Four Buddha statues are 210,000 rupees, three Bodhisattva statues are 140,000 rupees, and four stone slabs are 320,000 rupees. In total, you have to give me 670,000 rupees."

Chen Rui took out his wallet and counted 670,000 rupees to the stall owner, and then said, "Tomorrow you take me to the place where these things were dug up, and I'll give you another 300,000 rupees."

The stall owner was so happy that his mouth split open, and he agreed with a smile.

Chen Rui rented a taxi and returned to the hotel with four Buddha statues, three Bodhisattva statues and four stone slabs.

First, put the Buddha and Bodhisattva images aside.

Put the four slates on the table, pick up a basin of water, take a soft brush, and carefully brush the dirt off the slates.

After half an hour, the soil on the slate was cleaned, and the ancient characters on the slate were clearer and easier to identify.

This is an ancient Indian script that Chen Rui does not know.

However, there is Baidu.

Chen Rui turned on the computer, opened the browser, and searched for ancient Indian characters. The text on the slate was an ancient Indian script from the 4th to the 5th century BC. Chen Rui translated it one by one with the text on the slate.

However, there are only four incomplete slates, and they are not a whole. The information obtained is very limited, and they are incomplete and messy.

However, Chen Rui can probably know some information.

The incomplete information on the four stone tablets records that in the middle of the 5th century BC, the Buddha was in Kusinara Nirvana. At that time, after the holy corpse of the Buddha was worshipped by all beings in the ten directions for six days, on the seventh day, it was cremated, and the flames of the cremation were The fragrant pure water was extinguished, and the cremation place was guarded for seven days. During these seven days, all beings of the Buddha from ten directions went to the cremation place to worship. After the cremation, the relics of the Buddha were distributed to eight kings through the Brahman of fragrance nature: 1. Kushina City 2. Capricornus 3. Visali State 4. Kapilavastu State ⒌ Charapo State 6. Ramaga State 7. Viruti State 8. Brahma State. (To be continued.)