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crowds of people appear on foot, many armed with 

 bows and arrows, like the Chinfuars ; many figures 

 of Byrraggies or Jogies are ieen diflinguilhed by 

 large turbans, carrying their fticks, pots, and bun- 

 dles, as if coming from a journey ; feme leaning 

 on a Hick as if tired, or decrepid from age ; others ap- 

 proaching with a mien of refpect. and adoration. — The 

 fourth, fifth, fixth, and fevenih rows, are filled (as 

 it would appear from the fcanty information I was 

 able to obtain) with reprefentations of feveral events 

 regarding the deities of the place, or expreffive alle- 

 gories of the moral and religious dogmas of the 

 Brahmens ; and probably fome may record particular 

 events of real hiftory. — The eighth has fewer car- 

 vings than the reft, fome Hones are occupied by a 

 (ingle flower of large lize, perhaps intended for the 

 {acred flower (lotos) : and fome, though but a few, 

 by the figure of a god. — The ninth, or upper row, 

 is cut into openings,, in the manner of battlements, 

 and the (tones, between each of thefe apertures, 

 are alternately fculptured with the figures of the 

 Lingam, and a cow fhaded by an umbrella, to fignify 

 its pre-eminence. 



To examine the particular groups reprefented, 

 would have taken up much more time than I could 

 fpare, but I particularly noticed the following : I (1, . a 

 figure with five heads, weighing two figures in a ba- 

 lance : one of them appears to have a little out-ba- 

 lanced the other. From what I could underftand from 

 the Brahmens, this was meant for Bra'hma weighing 

 ViJJtnu and Siva, or Sulramica ; the latter is heavieff. 

 This alludes to the different fefts, or followers of 

 Vijhnu and Siva. Another figure alfo reprefented two 

 pcrfons weighed in a balance, both equal, but the ex- 

 planation of this I could not learn. 



Second. Several people pulling at the 

 head and tail of great (hake, which 



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