196 Description of the Antiquities at K&linjar. [March, 



tical of the river Saraswati or Sursuti. There is also a group of 

 Mahadeo and Parbati seated on a throne and attended by several 

 male and female figures. Mahadeo has his foot on the bull Nandi and 

 Parbati her's on the lion, her vahan ; under the throne is a small 

 figure, apparently lifting it up, which the brahmans say, is Ravan, who 

 attempted to carry off Kailas the heaven of Mahadeo(95), The large 

 Kal Bhairon I have already sent a sketch and description of ; he has 

 the moon in his head-dress of snakes and on his forehead a gem, which 

 is often substituted for his 3d eye(96) ; he has the usual weapons and 

 symbols in his various hands. In front of this immense figure a flight 

 of steps leads to a postern under the rampart, opening into a lower 

 enclosure ; in this enclosure is the Sidh ke gupha, shown in plan and 

 section figs. 5 and 6, (MS.) Plate II. ; it is empty, with the exception of 

 a small seat, fig. 7, (MS.) Plate II. ; the door way is reached by steps ; 

 there are several short inscriptions here in praise of Nilkanth and other 

 dieties; the dates are Samvat 1593, 1544 and 1500. 



I think I have now described to the best of my knowledge all the 

 objects of interest that are to be met with at Kalinjar, and my only 

 fear is that I shall be thought to have entered too much into detail : 

 however, I have expressed my meaning in as few words as possible, and 

 any prolixity will I trust be excused in a paper treating of legends and 

 stories so interminable, and sculpture and architecture so minute as 

 those of the Hindus. 



Having made a hasty visit to Ajighar near Kalinjar, I append a short 

 note of what is to be seen there, thinking that it may prove interesting. 



(95) The distorted figures which are seen in many Hindu sculptures, supporting 

 larger figures or weights, represent Gutachue, the son of the forest king Heramba, and 

 he is thus represented by architects to commemorate his infamy in having attempted 

 the virtue of Draupadi, the wife of the Pandus during their exile ; Bhima, one of them 

 hearing of it, instructed Draupadi to make an assignation in the temple, and during their 

 interview he tore down the columns of the temple, meaning to destroy the object of his 

 rage. Gutachue to save himself and Draupadi, exerted gigantic strength and supported 

 the whole fabric until released, in which painful and distorted attitude, he is usually 

 shown by sculptures. 



(96) Siva has three eyes, whence his name of f^wjT^"#T, tri-lochan, answering to the 

 Jupiter Triopthalmos of the Greeks, both are the personifications of Solar fire and the 

 spirit of all created things. The seeming contradiction implied in the worship of Siva 

 a9 the destroying genius and the creative principle also, is probably allusive to the laws 

 of nature, in which destruction is merely decomposition, or reproduction in another form. 



