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bird or quadruped upon which they ride. The charioteer 

 of the Suria Ratha, at the India House, is Arjuna or the 

 dawn. There is a figure discharging an arrow, which de- 

 notes the rays of the sun. A figure on each side with a 

 fly-flap and a fan, are the common attendants on royal- 

 ty in the East. Two male figures, one on each side, 

 holding a baton, are giants, emblems of force. A small 

 starving figure on each side, on the side of the stone, repre- 

 sents the effect produced by the absence of the sun's heat. 

 The dress of this figure of Suria at the India House, differs 

 from that of Figs. 2. and 3., which were probably sculptured 

 in a more southern part of India. The figure in the India 

 House is represented with Tartar half-boots, in form like the 

 Hungarian. Tartar and Chinese sculptors are frequently 

 employed to make the idols in India, and they form the 

 dress, and other accessory parts of the composition, after the 

 manner of their country. The seven horses in this composi- 

 tion, may allude to the seven planets, and the days of the 

 week. The Hindus name the seven days of the week from 

 the regent genii of the same planets, and in the same order as 

 we do. It was from Egypt that the week, and the names of 

 the days of the week, were introduced into Europe. 



There is another sculpture of the chariot of the sun at the 

 India House, in Coade's baked clay, copied from a sculpture 

 which exists at Delhi. 



Among the Indian sculptures at the British Museum, there 

 is a figure of Suria, between three and four feet in height, 

 with the usual attendant figures. This work is of a kind of 

 schistus. 



The last sculpture (PI. XXIV. fig. 4.) is Buda, repre- 

 sented by the figure of a man seated, with the legs across, 

 and the soles of the feet, and palm of the left hand, turn- 

 ed upwards. On each of the soles, and on the palm, is 

 placed a round body like a coin. Buda, in his childhood, 



was 



