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the mane. Something intended to reprefent this is, 

 indeed, vifible, which has more the effect of fpots. It 

 appears evident, the fculptor was by no means fo well 

 acquainted with the figure of the lion as with that of 

 the elephant and monkey, both being well reprefented 

 in this group. This fcene, I underftand, is taken 

 from the Mabaharat> and exhibits the principal per- 

 fons whofe actions are celebrated in that work. 



Oppofite, and furrounded by, a wall- of (tone, are 

 pagodas of brick, faid to be of great antiquity. Ad- 

 joining is an excavation in the rock, the ma fly roof 

 feemingly fupported by columns, not unlike thofe in 

 the celebrated cavern in the I (land of Elephant a , but 

 have been left unfmilhed. This was probably intended 

 as a place of worfhip. A few paces onward is another, 

 and a more fpacious, excavation, now ufed, and I fup- 

 pofe originally intended, as a (belter for travellers. A 

 fcene of fculpture fronts the entrance, faid to repre- 

 fent Crishna attending the herds of Ananda. One 

 of the group reprefents a man diverting an infant, by 

 playing on a flute, and holding the initrument as we 

 do. A gigantic figure of the god, with the gopis, and 

 feveral good reprefentations of nature, are obferved. 

 The columns fupporting the roof are of different orders, 

 the bafe of one is the figure of a Sphym. On the pave- 

 ment is an infeription. (See Infcript.) Near is the al- 

 moft deferted village, which dill retains the ancient 

 name Mahah alipoorum. The few remaining Brdhmens 

 vi(it the traveller, and conduct him over the rock. 



In the way up the rock a prodigious circular (lone is 

 paffed under, lb placed by nature, on a fmqoth and 

 floping furface, that you arc in dread of its cru(hing 

 you before you clear it. The diameter of this (lone is 

 twenty-feven feet. The top of the rock is ftrewed with 

 fragments of bricks, the remains, as you are informed, 

 of a palace anciently (landing on this (ite. A rectangular 



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