192 Description of the Antiquities at Kdlinjar, [March. 



holds the chakr against his breast and the elbow of that arm supports 

 Lakshmi ; he has a rich garland of lotus flowers, and behind him is a 

 kind of tree or stem which separates at top into three rich scrolls, 

 forming a canopy over his head. There are two inscriptions on this 

 sculpture, one at top and the other below, dated 1540(83) ; the former 

 contains the name of Ganesha, and the latter Uddaichand ; the words 

 preceding which, " Sutr Ghar," are, I fancy a corruption of " Sutar," 

 a carpenter, workman (Viskarma). The space enclosed by the pil- 

 lars, a. a. (MS.) Plate III. is called theRas mandal(84). I have already 

 described it and the pillars, so that the plates require no further expla- 

 nation than what is given with them. I mentioned that the present 

 building is only the basement story, and that there were originally seven 

 stages (vide note 13). The small brackets or corbels, A. A. fig. 2, 

 (MS.) Plate VI. and M. N. O. P. fig. 2, (MS.) Plate VII. are said to 

 have once supported arches, the crown being let into the cornice ; there 

 are no traces of these arches (85), but it is evident that some support 

 existed, as the holes in the bottom of the cornices on each face of the 

 octagon are still visible. S. S. is a small passage running round the cave j 

 it is lined all along with Linga (r r r r) of different sizes, and a raised 

 stone gutter (fig. 183, (MS.) Plate III.) also runs through it to drain the 

 cave, or rather to drain off the water which is poured over the image. 

 It is roughly excavated, and a passage through it is a work of considera- 

 ble bodily labour owing to its confined size, and the fact of the gutter 

 running along its whole length at a less height than two feet ; to explore 

 it I was obliged to creep along on my hands and knees, alternately bump- 

 ing my head against the gutter and scratching my knees against a Ling, 

 several of which are right in the middle of the passage, and in these 



(83) *rf^Tir^^!T??7T%*n -qifec ^T^ftr^ff ^«r?t w° *f furors' sw- 



(84) Ras mandal, from \]j$ and xj^^f the former signifying 1 a dance, and the 

 latter a circle, circumference ; this has probably some reference to the Zodiac -^r^j^rjjj 

 (Raschakra) Krishna's dance, called the Rasmandata, is described in Major Moor's Hindu 

 Pantheon an astronomical meaning,— Krishna being represented as the sun, and the 

 circle of dancers round him typifying the revolving celestial bodies. 



(85) The arch was not, I believe, used by the Hindus until after the Musalman inva- 

 sion \ the probability is that these corbels-supported ornamented cross pieces of stone* 

 which were let into holes in the underside of the cornice. 



