1839.] Inscribed Slab found near Chhatarpur. 167 



12| hundred weight, or 17 maunds. This stone lies detached from 

 some part of the building (from whence I cannot say) and rests inside 

 one of the temples before mentioned. I must return to state a pecu- 

 liarity I met with in this Barao. His two left legs were both placed 

 foremost ; perhaps this was intended to add to his strength or durability, 

 by giving him what they might have considered greater base ; but I 

 should doubt whether the base would not have diminished instead of 

 increased by this arrangement. In the other specimens, I think the legs 

 of none were advanced, but as if the animal were standing still. A large 

 tank exists within fifty yards of this Hog, but there was not much 

 water in it at the time I was there. A great deal of jungle surrounds 

 these ruins. Near the water entrance to one temple I found a lion or 

 two (stone ones, not living animals) ; one of whom seemed to be seizing 

 a wrestler by the left arm, with one paw up and mouth open ready to 

 destroy him. Was this Narsing, again, and Heran kussup ?( 4 ) I had a 

 desperate hunt here (not after a hare) but after my pencil, with which 

 I intended to have " knocked off" the last named figure, but I was ob- 

 liged to " knock of," altogether (as the sailors say) or leave work, be- 

 cause I could not find it. After sending two or three men to two or 

 three places to hunt for it, I was obliged to depart without making the 

 intended drawing, and after I had progressed about a mile from the 

 place, when it was too late to return, lo, and behold, I found the pencil 

 upon my palanquin drawer. I soon after got to Rajnuggur, but before 

 finally taking leave of the seven temples, I shall state my opinion, that 

 they are most probably the finest aggregate number of temples congre- 

 gated in one place to be met with in all India, and all are within a 

 stone's throw of one another. 



4. Hiranya Kasipu, Gold-clad, or Daitya or Titan ; for whose destruction Vishnu 

 took the form of the man-lion. 



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