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the image of Sakya Sinha, or at least some Buddhist saint. The hands 

 and feet are unfortunately broken off. 



Fig. 2 (Plate XXVII.) — Resembles the above, but is more perfect ; it 

 has remarkably well executed hands and feet on a pedestal which bears 

 an unmistakeable fire-altar, flanked on each side by pilasters of a style 

 which I shall presently notice. (Plate XLI.) 



But the most remarkable fact connected with this figure is, that de- 

 spite its Buddhist characteristics, there is on the forehead a distinct 

 " tilak" or caste mark ! 



Fig. 3 (Plate XXVIII.) — Is that of a man with moustache, flowing 

 dhoti and sandalled feet ; over the neck and shoulders are suspended 

 what are apparently amulets. On the forehead is the caste mark ; the 

 hair is loose and flows over the shoulders, but in front is apparently 

 bound up with a string of beads or some such ornament, which I think 

 passes over the top-knot, and depresses it into two portions in the mid- 

 dle, but as there is a slight fracture here I am not certain. 



The lobe of the ears is also elongated, which may perhaps mark the 

 figure as the work of a Buddhist artist; otherwise there is no Bud- 

 dhistical character attaching to it.* 



On the pedestal of this figure and on the sides of that of the pre- 

 ceding one are very elegant scrolls, but of differing patterns. 



Side of the Pedestal shelving the peculiar scroll. 



Fig. 4 (Plate XXIX.) — Is a pilaster of design so evidently Grecian 



as to place beyond doubt the date of these sculptures as subsequent to 



Alexander's invasion. 



* The right ear is pierced by a large earring, so that the lobe is in reality not so 

 much elongated as it appears, still it is longer than is natural. The left ear is un- 

 fortunately fractured at the bottom. 



