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of a niche at Bade3wur containing an image of Parbati. (J. A. S. B. 

 vol. VIII. p. 384.) 



Take again the monstrous trnnked and toothed creatures, 

 disgorging scroll-work, over the pilasters of the Dhamayangyi 

 window just referred to, and set them by the Indian monsters in 

 almost similar position, as shewn in Figs. 1, 3 and 8, in the 

 Plate of Analogies. "Who can doubt that the one is derived directly 

 from the other ? 



Look at the festoon ornament of beads and tassels pendant 

 from the mouths of monstrous grinning heads, as seen in the 

 Gaudapalen (PL IV. Pig. 9,) and in the Sembyo-ku. It is one 

 of those details which at first sight were strongly suggestive of 

 European origin. But it is absolutely identical with the adorn- 

 ments of a pillar in a temple on the Madras coast given by Col. 

 Mackenzie in his collections. Similar ornameut is seen in the 

 Assam remains described in a late number of the Asiatic Society's 

 Journal, on a pillar at Barolli in Rajpootana given by Pergusson 

 from Todd's Bajasthan; and on a pillar at Jajeepoor in Cuttack, 

 figured by Major Kittoe in the Journ. As. Soc. Ben. Vol. VII. 

 p. 54 ; as well as in two sculptured pillars found in the sands of 

 the Ganges near Pnbna, which now stand at the door of the 

 Asiatic Society's Museum in Calcutta. A modified rendering 

 of the same, Mr. Oldham tells me, he found on some of the 

 fragments at Benares College which are said to have been 

 brought from the ancient Buddhist Pagoda of Sarnath near that 

 city, and very lately on a sculptured stone which he lighted 

 on among the forests of the Nurbudda valley. Remark those 

 curious little peaks or acroteria which terminate so many of the 

 flat projecting mouldings in all the Pagan temples : (e. g. see 

 PI. IV. Pigs. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 17.) It is a feature found 

 all over India. It is given by Mr. Fergusson as one of the 

 characteristics in his generalized drawing of a Mantdpa, or vesti- 

 bule of an ancient Hindu temple; it appears in Lieut. Maisey's 

 drawings of Kalinjar ; it is seen in pillars represented by Col. 

 Mackenzie ; and the closest resemblance, not only in this feature 

 but in the manner of its application, will be seen at a glance 

 on comparing the gate of Bhubaneswar in Orissa as given by 



