352 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S , XIX, 
Cunningham’s rendering is much nearer the mark. In inter- 
preting it in the light of the aforesaid story, I can offer three 
alternative renderings. One, taking the word miga in its 
wider sense to mean animals in general, and two, taking it in 
its narrower sense to mean deer 
Taking miga in the wider sense: ‘‘ the chaitya is an 
animal site ground,” 
2. ing miga in the narrower sense: (a) ‘‘ the chaitya 
in a nares -ground of deer”’; (6) ‘‘ the chaitya in (a wood 
land, where) deer were eaten.’ 
3. Plate XLV, 3.—The ee is not furnished with 
an epee The scene is thus described Cunningham : 
attract special attention in this sculpture. save hie the 
simple dressing of the women’s hair, which is merely combed 
deg the back of the head and fastened in a knot behind the 
neck.” 
think General Cunningham is not quite right in taking 
the departing figure to be a female? The male figure in front 
of the female in the middle ‘is not perhaps seated on a morha 
but on a seat looking like a bedstead or a couch. The female 
has her left hand placed on her saci ep: Soret the lower 
part of her abdomen, which is y prominent, while she 
holds a fan-like object in her right hand TEeeied out towards 
the male. She looks as if eager to explain some important 
matter to him, but he does not care even to look at her and 
the expression of his right hand suggests that he is not 
convinced of the truth of her story, or that he is not willing te 
believe her. If all these conjectures be right, the scene can 
be rendered moronallly Seercane in phe hen of ohe scinid Legh 



1 The | Stipa of Bharhut, p- 
2 The tilde laentareets in eae combed down the back of the head 
and lastenad 4 in a knot behind the neck cannot be regarded, according to 
the Bharaut seinen as the characteristic of a female figure. Such 
bust is simply due to the leaning ‘of the upper part of the body giving & 
glimpse of the front pact through the arm-pit. Cunningham’s Plate 
XXX, 3, contains a male figure with ‘ienisinant bust accountable for 
e fundamental characteristics of female figures at 
ntal 
an ornam 
cases where a Sects is not used; (2) that they invariably ear both 
g klets, while a a or girdle, twofold, threefold, “fourfold, 
fivefold or sixfold, hangs over the hip instead of bein ng tied round the 
If these distinctions are applied as tests, a balance of judgment 
is on the side of the figure in question being a m 
