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XXVIII. Remarks on the Identity of the Personal Ornaments sculptured on 
some Figures in the Budd’ha Cave Temples at Carli, with those worn by the 
Brinjaris. By Lieut.-Colonel Wirt1am Henry Syxrs, F.L.S., F.G.S., &c. 
Communicated by the Bombay Brancu of the Royal Asiatic Society. 
Read the 17th of March 1832. 
I am induced to offer to the Society a sketch* of the personal ornaments 
on the alto-relievo figures, male and female, in the Budd’ha cave temple of 
Carli, from having remarked an apparent identity in the majority of the 
sculptured ornaments, with those worn by that remarkable, erratic, carry- 
ing and armed, but essentially pastoral people, the Brinjaris; a people 
whose origin and history admit of further development. My acquaintance 
with the Briyaris is too limited to justify me in advancing any opinion on a 
community of taste between them and the ancient Budd’has, and although 
such community, if existing in the constitution of European society, would 
not excite attention, it will be considered, at least, curious in India, where 
the classes of society are not less marked by caste than by habits of life, 
opinions, dress, and personal ornaments. 
Should the identity I have noticed, open to any future inquirer into the 
origin and history of the Brinjaris, a new channel for the prosecution of 
his labours, my object in laying this sketch before the Society will be 
fulfilled. 
I have used the term “ carrying,” in speaking of the Briyaris, in allu- 
sion to their practice of employing their bullocks in thousands, to transport 
grain, salt, &c. over the country. When not occupied in their transit 
labours, these people are found pasturing their cattle on waste lands, and 
at this period they live principally on the milk of their cows. They always 
dwell in small tents, consisting of pieces of cloth stretched over horizontal 
poles supported on two sticks, the walls of the tents being made of bullock 
packs piled on each other. 
(Signed) W. H. Sykes. 
* See accompanying Plate. 
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