102 Note on Kandahar Gems. [No 98. 



the right hand is raised in a monitory attitude instead of supporting 

 a hawk, or parrot. The legend I have given in the lithograph accom- 

 panying this paper (No. 2.) 



No. 9, I cannot make out the meaning of; the figures of the goat and 

 bullock are spirited and natural, while the human sitting figure, and 

 another half-seen personage who appears to be offering a glass or cup, are 

 so rude as to lead one to suppose they were purposely caricatured. The 

 material on which this is cut is not noted. 



The three-faced gem, No. 10, is indeed an exceedingly curious relic. 

 The legend I have given at length to facilitate reference, as they do not 

 show distinctly in the lithograph of the gem. As to the meaning of the 

 figures and symbols, after exhausting all the inquiry and conjecture my 

 limited opportunities will allow me to engage in, I would decidedly consider 

 them to be Boodhist. The head might be (?) Boodh ; the extension of 

 the lobe of the ear in the figure, and the nature of the symbols appended 

 on the other faces of the gem, might warrant the assumption. It is un- 

 fortunate that Mr. Csoma de Koros' excessive dislike for conjectural com- 

 ments of this kind deprives me, as it invariably did our late Secretary, of 

 his assistance upon the points now under consideration. But in the 

 absence of other aid, I had recourse to the assistance of a very intelli- 

 gent Jotee, or Jain priest, at present resident in Calcutta. He was ori- 

 ginally from Dehli, has resided long at Lucknow, and has been about six 

 years here. I was fortunate enough to find him out while making inqui- 

 ries through certain Jains of respectability, who chanced to have him for 

 their Gooroo. On showing him the impression of the head, and inquir- 

 ing whether there was any ground for venturing to suppose that 

 Boodh might be represented as with the beard, he decidedly negatived 

 the supposition, and insisted that, though the other signs were Boodhistic, 

 the head was not what I had suggested. Having however pointed 

 out the elongated lobe of the ear, which had escaped his observation 

 at first, he was struck with the circumstance, and after some fur- 

 ther examination made the remarkable discovery of the supposed beard 

 being the cloth wrapper which his sect place before the mouth, letting it 

 fall over the lower part of the face when engaged in religious discussion, 

 in holy rites, or in teaching on points connected with their doctrine. He 

 appeared to be much surprised, and elated at this discovery, and did not 

 entertain a doubt as to the identity of the head with Boodh. The sup- 

 posed beard was in fact, until explained with reference to its proper repre- 

 sentation, an almost insurmountable argument against the head's being 

 what I would have fain supposed it. Captain Macleod, (of the Political De- 

 partment) so long resident among a Boodhist population, had already in- 



