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his rat; the pedestal of a statue with a foot resting on a bull; a 
four-armed female, most probably Parvati, attended by two heavenly 
musicians; and a slab containing personifications of the Navagraha, 
or “ Nine Planets.” 
197. Mound D, which is 100 feet square at base and 15 feet in 
height, is crowned with a fine banian tree. Beneath the tree are 
collected several pieces and fragments of sculpture, which are partly 
Brahmanical and partly Jain. The principal sculpture represents a 
four-armed seated male figure, with beard and moustaches, his right 
foot resting on a bull. In his four hands he holds a two-pronged 
sceptre, a necklace, a ball, and a square pole. This is probably a 
figure of Siva. A second statue represents the four-armed Vishnu 
standing, and holding in three hands a club, a quoit, and a shell, the 
fourth hand being open with a lotus flower marked on the palm. A 
third sculpture is the pedestal of a statue with some naked figures on 
the face of it, and an antelope in the middle. The antelope is the cog- 
nizance of Santanath, the 16th Jain hierarch. A fourth stone is simply 
the pedestal of a lingam. The remaining sculptures are two pairs of 
apparently naked figures, male and female, seated, the latter with a 
child in her arms. ‘These two sculptures are similar to one in the 
Siva Temple on mound B, which I have supposed to represent Maha- 
deva and his wife Bhawani as the goddess of fecundity. But in 
these two sculptures the god has a small naked figure of Buddha fixed 
in the front of his head-dress, from which I infer that these figures 
probably belong to the Jain religion, while that on mound B certainly 
belongs to the Brahmanical Shashti, the goddess of fecundity. 
198. Mound E is about 75 feet square and 15 or 16 feet in 
height. 1t is now quite bare, the whole surface having been recently 
excavated for bricks. Any figures that may have been discovered 
were probably removed to mound D, which would account for the 
mixture of Saiva and Vaishnava sculptures now lying on its 
summit. 
199. Mound F is 150 feet in length, by 120 feet in breadth, 
and 18 feet in height. On the south slope of the mound there is a 
fine statue of the four-armed Vishnu, in blue stone from the quarries 
near Gaya. 
200. G and H are small low mounds from which bricks have 
been recently excavated, They are probably the remains of inferior — 
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