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is twilled round a Lin* am. This I had feen carved on 

 the walls of the pagoda of Wefttigmetta, near Siaout, 

 in September 1792. 



3d. Elephants treading a man under foot. 



4th. A naked figure of a woman approaching the 

 Lingam : in her left hand (he holds the fin all pot ufed 

 for ablution ; in her right a firing of beads (Ingam 

 <valu) : a hand appears iffuing from the Lingam. 



The Brdhmens explained the meaning of this fculp- 

 ture, " Acuma Devi naked, approaching to worfhip 

 " the Lingam ; a hand appears fuddenly from it, wav- 

 <e ing, and a voice is heard, forbidding her to approach 

 i: in that indecent fituation." A maxim of decency, 

 in the height of religious zeal is here inculcated. 



5th. The ftory of Mallecarjee and the facred 

 cow (the origin of. the pagoda) is reprefented in two 

 different places. The cow appears with its udder 

 diftended over the Lingam, which differs from the ac- 

 count of the Brahmens in not being reprefented as a 

 rough ftone ; a perfon near a tree is feen, as if looking 

 on ; a kind of divifion feems to feparate thefe figures 

 from a woman, in a fitting pofture, with an umbrella 

 held over her, to denote iuperior rank ; on the right, 

 behind a tree, is a figure very indiltincl, probably 

 intended to reprefent the herdfman : the trees are 

 badly executed. 



6th. Among the number of animals in the procef- 

 Hon on the fecond hand third row, two camels are 

 reprefented with a perfon on each, beating the ?iagra, 

 or great drum. 



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