I5O AN ACCOUNT OF THE SCULPTURES 



pofed to be from that of the men, is a bath excavated 

 alfo from the folid rock, with fteps in the infide, which 

 the Bramins call the bath of Dropedy, the wife of Ju- 

 dijhter, and his brothers. Plow much credit is due to 

 this tradition, and whether this ftone couch may not 

 have been anciently ufed as a kind of throne rather than 

 a bed, is matter for future inquiry. A circumftance, 

 hov/ever, which may fcem to favour this idea is, that a 

 throne in the Sk-anfcrit, and other Hindoo languages, is 

 called Singhdfen, which is compofed of the words Sing t 

 a lion ; and dfen, a feat. 



Thefe are all that appear on that part of the upper 

 furface of the hill, the afcent to which is on the north; 

 but, on defcending from thence, you are led round the 

 hill to the oppofite fide, in which there are fteps cut 

 from the bottom to a place near the fummit, where is 

 an excavation that feems to have been intended for a 

 place of worfhip, and contains various fculptures of 

 Hindoo deities. The mod remarkable of thefe is a 

 gigantic figure of Vijlinoo, afleep on a kind of bed, 

 with a huge fnake wound about in many coils by way 

 of pillow for his head ; and thefe figures, according to 

 the manner of this place, are all of one piece, hewn 

 from the body of the rock. 



But though thefe works may be deemed ftupendous, 

 they are furpalfed by others that are to be feen at the 

 diftance of about a mile, or a mile and a half, to the 

 fouthward of the hill. They confift of two Pagodas, of 

 about thirty feet long by twenty feet wide, and about as 

 many in heighth, cut out of the folid rock, and each 

 confiding originally of one fingle ftone. Near thefe 

 alfo ftand an elephent full as big as life, and a lion much 

 2 larger 



