10 On the Antiquities of the Peshawur District. [No. 1, 
reclining on one knee. The other side shows six figures; of the first 
the head alone comes out distinctly and bears a close resemblance to 
that of Buddh; an armed man lightly clad is the next figure; a 
shaven figure in simple dress the next; this is followed by three 
figures with ample hair and locks, dressed like the figures on the 
opposite side, the last again reclining on one leg. 
The centre of the scene at the top is filled by a large urn on an 
ornamental pedestal and under a canopy. ‘This appears to be wor- 
shipped by the figures on both sides, the last of which, on each side, 
surpasses Horace’s imagination, since the upper part is a nude human 
figure, and the lower what may be called the coils of a dragon with 
dragon’s wing and horse’s foot, ending in a gigantic leaf by way 
of tail! 
There are two more figures with hands joined near the bottom of 
the slab, supported by Corinthian capitals: these figures, much alike 
in dress, ornament, and attitude, as they are, differ as to their head- 
dress, the one on the right having flowing hair and a halo, and the 
other what appears to be a carefully twisted turban, and no halo. 
No.7. Aslab being a piece of one side of a square pillar; it is 
30 inches long; width 13 inches at the base, J1 at the top. Five 
compartments, three with Buddh sitting, two with Buddh standing ; 
the halo is distinct in all but the topmost one. Of the four figures 
beside Buddh in the lowest, two appear in the attitude of suppli- 
eants; whilst the other two are bringing presents apparently. In 
the next above, one of the shaven figures reappears ; the figure next 
to this is too much mutilated to be recognized, and so is the object 
held in the right hand of the figure facing Buddh. In the third 
compartment the figures approaching Buddh appear to bring presents 
as in slab No.4. In the second compartment from the top the 
figures are much mutilated ; so they are in the topmost one, but it 
can easily be distinguished that the two figures nearest Buddh offer 
presents which are carried by their followers. 
The two ends of each of these five compartments are formed by 
pilasters with nude children in different postures. The sides of the 
slab itself (the slab being about two inches thick) continue the same 
pilaster-ornament. 
No. 8. A figure of Buddh, 19 inches in height what there is of it, 
as the feet are wanting. The right hand having been joined on to 
