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mutilating hands of their opponents, such as the two elephants with 

 elevated trunks over Lachmi, &c. The temple faces the east, and 

 the sacred Ling is covered by a hollow silvered head of Mahadeo, 

 which was taken off for my inspection : expanded behind it, rises the 

 silvered hood of a Cobra de capello, forming a canopy to the whole. 

 There is nothing remarkable about the Ling, which is a small one 

 blackened by libations of oil, milk, &c. I was not near enough to see 

 the depression, or mark, said to have been left on it at the place Bas- 

 wana was absorbed. Facing the Ling, in the ante-room, are two Baswa- 

 nas, or sacred bulls. At the point of the Delta stands an Acacia tree. 

 The two rivers were flowing with considerable rapidity, and their tur- 

 bid waters mingled in curling eddies near a small temple, almost sub- 

 merged in the waves, containing a Ling. The three Maths of the three 

 Swamis here are in a dilapidated condition ; that of Sencri Bharti is in 

 the best state of repair. A brahmin performing tapas on a tiger skin, 

 sat in a state of religious abstraction in one of the cells. The Sthalla 

 Puranam of the place is in the*hands of Ragovindra Achari, one of the three 

 Matha-mudras whom I saw here ; the names of the others are Sencri 

 Bhat and Binda Achari. There are two Sassanams, one in the N. wall of 

 the enclosure, the other near the ferry of the Malpurba in Hala Canara. 

 Rode from Cuddywal to Hunnagund, about five miles westerly. 

 Jain temple at Hunna- Th ere is a Jain temple situated in the S. E. 

 S und * extremity of a short and low range of hills ; it 



is in ruins ; the Gopar had been prostrated, and the sculptures con- 

 siderably defaced. The temple fronts the east, and the doorways are 

 flanked by mace-bearers in relief, with female figures on either side. 

 The walls are decorated exteriorly with various sculptures : baya- 

 deres, lions, elephants, &c. in alto relievo, and present a mass of 

 elaborate carving. Bas reliefs of naked Tirthunkars are interspersed, 

 the larger in a standing, the smaller in a sitting, posture. The ex- 

 treme length of the arms of the former, which hang loosely down by 

 their sides reaching below the knees, reminded me of the description of 

 those of Rob Roy. The sanctum had been rifled of its idols, but I 

 observed a large one reared up in one of the entrances, which possibly 

 had been abstracted thence, as it has evidently suffered displacement. 

 It is an erect naked figure in high relief, executed on a block of fine 

 sandstone, with the short curly locks, (resembling a Welsh wig,) elongat- 



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