918 Description of a Colossal Jain figure [Sept. 



Cyclone and what is to be done to avoid it, much must depend on 

 the judgment guided by careful observation. Thus for instance a 

 sea from the Eastward, crossing a Southerly one, with a bank of clouds 

 to the E. S. E. are strong signs of a Cyclone, though it may be blow- 

 ing fresh from the South at the time ; and again if the bank is heavy 

 to the S. S. E. that it may come up from that quarter. In a word, 

 the vigilant seaman will watch every thing and despise no indication, 

 and the dull and the careless will see nothing and be always too late ; 

 and then it will be said that " the ship was very unfortunate ; but the 

 under-writers have paid the damage, and the Captain, poor fellow, has 

 lost his command ! " 



Description of a Colossal Jain figure nearly 80 feet high, cut in relief 

 discovered on a Spur of the Satpoorah Range, in the district of 

 Burwanie, on the Nerbudda. — By Dr. Impey. 



(Copy.) 

 From E. Impey, Esq. Residency Surgeon, Indore, 

 To Sir H. M. Elliot, K. C. B. Secretary Foreign Department, 

 Dated Residency, 30£A October, 1849. 

 Sir, — I have the honor to submit through you, for the perusal 

 of the most noble the Governor General, a report on, and drawings of, 

 a remarkable object of antiquity, — a Colossal rock image cut in relief, 

 and nearly 80 feet in height, situated on a spur of the Satpoorah range, 

 in the district of Burwanee, on the Nerbudda, about 100 miles from 

 Indore. 



2. As the image is, I feel assured, of considerable interest, being the 

 largest figure of the kind known in India, and second only in magnitude 

 to the Bhuts at Bamiyan, and has never been described, I have been 

 at some pains to do so fully, and also been particular in the translation 

 of the inscription found in the reconstructed temple connected with 

 the worship of the image, both of which are of the Jain persuasion. 



3. I have reason to think from the character of a separate inscrip- 

 tion found by me, that others may yet be discovered of more remote 

 date than Summut 1223, A. D. 1167, which is however of so much 

 value that it accords with, and fills up, a blank in the dates of some 



