2S75.] F. S. Growse — Supposed Greek Sculpture at Matliura. 213 



dralala in his 'Antiquities of Orissa', where it is introduced apropos of the 

 discussion regarding the amount of influence exercised by the Greeks on Indian 

 art. 



Geotjp No. I. — In this are four figures, (vide PL XII) two male and two 

 female, standing under masses of long lanceolate, pinnate leaflets, with tufts of 

 small flowers. The leaves are like those of the Asoka ; but the flowers more 

 resemble the kadamb. The first figure to the right is a female dressed in 

 a long skirt and upper jacket, with a narrow shawl thrown across the body. 

 On her feet are shoes, and thick heavy rings round her ankles. Her left 

 hand holds the hem of her mantle and the right is in the grasp of an amo- 

 rous swain who stands beside her with crossed legs, resting his left hand 

 on her shoulder. He wears close-fitting drawers, which simply cover his 

 nakedness and extend to about the middle of the thighs, but leave his pro- 

 tuberant paunch exposed. A scarf, fastened in front with a sort of sailor's 

 knot at the neck, hangs down his back behind. His feet are bare. The 

 third figure is a female, dressed exactly as the first, but wearing elaborately 

 worked bangles which cover nearly half the length of her fore-arm. In her 

 left hand is a lotus-bud, while the right hangs down straight by her side. 

 Near her feet are two covered vessels, one on either side. To the extreme 

 left of the group stands a youth who appears to be a mere passive spectator.* 

 He has no shoes and wears a flowered muslin tunic reaching down to the knee. 

 A little above the ankle are marks which show that his under-garment is a 

 pair of long close-fitting drawers. All four figures show traces of chaplets 

 which had crowned their heads. f The leaves may be those of the vine or 

 the ivy. 



Geotjp No. II. — The principal figure is a pot-bellied man, (vide PI. 

 XIII) seated in a wine-befuddled state on a rock, or low stool, with his arms 

 supported by two attendants, who stand on either side of him. For dress he 

 has only a wrapper, thrown round his loins, leaving his prominent paunch 

 uncovered. One leg is raised on the seat, the other hanging down. On his 

 head is a chaplet of leaves. The attendant on the right side is a male wear- 

 ing a mantle fastened at the neck in front with a clasp. The right hand is 

 stretched behind the central figure for its support. The attendant on the 

 left is a female supporting the right arm of the drunkard. She wears a 

 long skirt reaching to the feet, with a short, sleeved jacket over it. A neck- 

 lace of five rows adorns her breast, and thick heavy jewels are pendant from 



Indo- Scythian females of the old sculptures and of the hill women to the north of 

 Simla at the present day. I take the seated figure to he the Scythian Hercules" — a 

 suggestion which strikes me as the most plausihle yet advanced. 



* It does not so appear to me ; hut rather each of the male figures seems to he 

 urging his female companion to do something ahout which they are hesitating. 



f These are scarcely if at all perceptible in the photograph. 



