928 Description of a Colossal Jain figure [Sept. 



been carried, a sitting figure of Parswinath, 2 feet 9 inches high ; it is 

 solitary and plain, the right hand and left leg uppermost. 



In a more easterly direction are two other erect statues, half buried 

 and evidently out of their proper places ; the most westerly has the 

 solar radiance opened out behind it, divided into 29 points, and is only 

 two feet above ground : the other has been much more elaborately 

 carved ; the stone is lighter and brighter, and the proportion more 

 graceful ; it has no canopy, but the curled hair tied in a knot on the 

 crown of the head, the stone out of which it was worked is gracefully 

 finished, and in a heart shape behind ; the two attendants are precisely 

 similar to those on the first described image : 3 feet 5 inches of this 

 figure are above ground. Further to the east is another built recess, 

 5 feet square, in which is a sitting figure of Parswinath, broken off 

 unfortunately at the neck and 4 feet in height ; the fallen head has 

 the peculiar curled hair and is over-shaded by the naga, the palm of the 

 right hand has an ornament which I take to be the lotus, though 

 I have never seen it with three leaves. On the plinth is another trefoil, 

 but I almost think the lower leaf has been omitted or worn off, and 

 that it must have been a Srivatsa. There is in Lord Valentia's collec- 

 tion, and in all Ceylon Bhudhistical image, a flower of this shape, but 

 with a fourth leaf on the hand of the seated Budha, and curious enough 

 the leaves have serrated edges also. These are the chief attractive 

 objects in the neighbourhood of the great rock image. Higher up the 

 hill is a small plateau, where are the remains of masonry, the bricks of 

 apparently modern date, or else the inhabitants of the district have 

 adhered to, or perhaps taken the custom from previous ages, for the 

 bricks are of the same size and shape and material as those made at 

 Burwanie in the present day, and peculiar in their proportions, — 14 

 inches long, 9 broad and 3 thick. Here are two images, one full length 

 and erect, but buried to the waist, and similar to those described ; 

 the other is more ancient and set upon a pedestal as if intended for a 

 niche. The figure is not large, scarcely 3 feet high, but differs from the 

 others, being a female having very protruding breasts, and also in pos- 

 ture. It is represented as if seated on a bench, the left leg bent under 

 the right knee. It has a canopy of 9 ribs, much resembling an umbrella, 

 and its handle or stem runs down the left side. The face of the image 

 is much injured, the hair visible and bound into a knot behind the right 



