Category:Buddhapada Shrine, Mahabodhi Temple

Buddha's Footprint and Hindu Shrines with Buddha Images nearby. These were in use in the centuries when the site had been more or less abandoned by Buddhists. Hindus has managed to incorporate Buddha and Bodhisattva statues into their shrines, though their reference as specifically Buddhist images had been lost. They worshipped images of Buddhist deities installed there as forms of Hindu gods.

Buchanan mentions :

"Before the porch of the great Mondir (Temple) is a stone containing the impressions of the feet of a Buddh, and called Buddh Pada." Cunningham (1861) mentionned about the Buddha Pada as being the same as the one referred to as Vishnu-pad in the Amara Deva's inscription. He mentions that originally the feet may have been those of the Buddha, which, on the decline of Buddhism, were qietly appropriated to Vishnu by the accomodating Brahmins.

Camera location	24° 41′ 45.04″ N, 84° 59′ 30.22″ E	View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap	24.695844; 84.991729