1848.] Description of the Antiquities at Kdlinjar. 189 



margin. (63) The lower gateway has no inscriptions ; it is said to have 

 been built by Aman Singh, raja of Pannah. 



Immediately below this gateway there are on the right two sculptures 

 built, the one into the parapet of the steps and the other into the wall 

 of the gateway. The former is the upper portion of a highly finished 

 male figure, called Tulsidas (64) ; the arms are missing. The latter 

 sculpture represents Ravan, the king of Lanka (Ceylon), attended by 

 a number of male and female figures and demons, in rows on each side- 

 of him ; according to the brahmans, these figures represent his wives, 

 relations, familiars, generals, &c. Over these is a row of what appear to 

 be Linga, some bearing a head, others the usual division in the Ling, 

 and one a figure combating an animal. (65) 



The length of this sculpture is 4 feet 1 inch, from which some idea 

 may be formed of the minuteness of the work, owing to which, and to 

 the perishable material (sandstone), the extremities are much obliterated. 



The upper row contains nine four- armed skeleton figures holding clubs 

 or sceptres. In the 2nd row on the left are five four-armed figures, hold- 

 ing clubs or sceptres, and a kind of ball (66) ; on the right three four- 

 armed figures, two hands joined, as if praying, the other two rest on 

 intervening pedestals ; also three large figures, one holding a child and a 

 sceptre, and another a musical instmment(67). The third row contains 

 male and female figures with four arms, two hands, holding lotus* 

 sceptre, and the other two resting on pedestals, also a seated figur© 

 playing on an instrument. In the bottom row are male figures with th© 

 lotus, sceptre, and pedestals, as above. 



Ravan appears to have had 3 heads ; the only one remaining is that 

 of a lion ; on each side of him is a female figure,, seemingly surmounted 



(63) iT^refo w^n^ sot 5w f*r*lsf?r tfro w^ -svm \?m^K 



(64) A famous fakeer or gosain. 



(65) Some say that these emblems represent the gods, deotas, &e. who aided in the 

 siege of Lanka,— so that this figure may be Hanuman ; others call them the " das mastakh*'* 

 but as there are 12 of them, and have to all appearance originally been 14, I cannot 

 understand that name. 



(66) From the huge ear and fat bodies, these figures have the appearance of Ganesl^ 

 but they probably represent some monsters in Ravan's army. 



(6H) Yinaor Lute, 



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