930 Description of a Colossal Jain figure [Sept. 



abutment to the spur of the hill to the level of which only it is raised. 

 The steps lead direct to the temple door, which faces the east, and 

 must always have done so, there being no evidence whatever of any 

 attempts at destruction. In Captain Stewart's remarks on Woon, 

 great stress is laid on this direction of the doorway, as indicating 

 itself of Brahmanical interference, the Jain temples there usually facing 

 the north, and one, which is said to be Brahmanical, the east, but this 

 is not an invariable rule, for Neelkunt Mahdeo's temple in the town faces 

 the west, and at Hinnagund on the Kristna alluded to by Captain 

 Wenbold, there is one which faces the east. Captain Stewart is borne 

 out by Ram Raz in his illustrations of Hindoo architecture, and the 

 custom in all Sivite temples in general, but the Mahawanso affirms that 

 the pulpits in Bhudhistical Vehars always faced the east, the seats of the 

 priests the north. In the Bawunguj the aspect of the temple and colos- 

 sus coincide. In a temple where there is not much space to spare the 

 chief object might naturally be placed fronting the entrance, as well for 

 light as effect. In the Jain temples in Kanaree there are always 4 en- 

 trances. The Bawunguj temple is surrounded on three sides by a wall 

 5J feet high, it is 82 feet long, measured inside, and 54 feet in front ; at 

 about § of its length, owing to the confined surface of the hill, the wall 

 is contracted and closes in 4^ feet on each side, and in consequence is 

 only 45 feet broad behind. Lengthways there are 16 recesses for 

 figures of some Jain Iswarra, which from the wheel and lion being 

 invariably depicted, I take to be those of Mahavira or Vaidhumana. 10 

 of these are in the narrow part of the wall, 16 in the broad, 11 in the 

 rear. There are evidences of the wall having been continued some dis- 

 tance on either side in front adjoining the steps ; it is however impossi- 

 ble to say decidedly how many figures there may have been recesses for, 

 — whether any multiple of 24 or an indefinite number. In one of the 

 temples at Abu I notice there are 56 mentioned, and at Indrapur near 

 Belegula, there were 72 images (As. Res. Vol. IX.) but in 1807 

 only 42 were remaining in good condition, placed in a gallery under a 

 portico supported by pillars, which was carried inside along the wall. In 

 the temple I am describing there was no space for these images, which 

 were consequently placed outside. The presence of the court wall 

 would seem to make the building resemble that species of temple de- 

 scribed by Dr. Buchanan as a Basti ; which, though signifying a hill, 



