1849.] discovered on a Spur of the Satpoorah Range. 933 



of rice and flowers, giving proof of the recent presence of devotees. The 

 same objects, viz. representations of feet, were found not as chief objects, 

 but at the foot of a statue in another very small building on the ex- 

 treme edge of the same hill to the west, very similar to those seen in 

 Colonel Todd's plate of the temple of Kamalmair. In the centre of 

 the enclosing wall of the large temple is an opening leading along the 

 spur of the hill to this building, 20 paces distant ; it has a cupola made 

 of brick and coarse plaster, very uneven ; it is only 7 feet high and 5 

 square, with an entrance of 2 ft. 10 in. through which it is of course 

 necessary to creep inside, and too low to admit of standing straight 

 when there, probably meant to cause the necessary degree of prostra- 

 tion to the deity. Facing the door and by itself was a tolerable sized 

 Jain image in an attitude not found elsewhere among the figures either 

 above or below or in the temple, viz. that of supplication ; the palms of 

 the hands joined together, the extremities of the fingers pointed upwards 

 and the thumbs on the breasts. As a curious coincidence I may men- 

 tion that there is a very old figure of exactly this character and posture 

 half buried in the land in the neighbourhood of the Jain temples at 

 Woon. There were two attendant figures below this, the outer hip 

 thrust out, upon which the outer hand rests, the inner leg bent and the 

 corresponding arm supporting a substance more like a lengthened bell ; 

 sic-in-origine, my memory does not serve me as to the exact nature of 

 this emblem, but from its having been held over the head of a figure in 

 another place it must be a rude umbrella, though as well as I recollect 

 it was precisely similar to those surrounding the Gay a, Buddhistical 

 figures at plate 70, figures 6, 7, 8, of Moore's Pantheon. On the right 

 wall is the same figure cut in marble with a lotus carved on the breast, it 

 is apparently of recent workmanship. The group is rather remarkable, 

 for underneath are two figures, right and left, the former holding the ob- 

 long-shaped symbol over the head of a lower figure, which is kneeling or 

 seated upon one leg bent underneath, the hands in front in the act of 

 supplication, and a chord with tassel leading from the wrists to a jug or 

 jar which is placed near its right foot. The left figure is on both knees 

 and two jugs are near it of a double form. 



On the pedestal are the following letters : — 



"^n^T^T TT^r, ^*<£ Wardhaman Rakshasa, 1659. 



On the left wall are two large figures, one holding a lotus over the 



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