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attracted my notice on the former journey cïose 

 to the road. One of them a plain Jain figiire 

 cross legged, with its hands resting, the palm? 

 turned up, on the soles of the feet ; it appears 

 to be entirely naked and with the curly 

 bead. The other appears to me to represent 

 some person of rank rather than a devotee, 

 from the rich ornaments wbich decorate the 

 arms, neck and waist — its right hand is placed 

 on the thigh ; the left placed behind the left 

 thigh in a hanging posture; on the head an or- 

 namented covertitre, perhaps a crown — both are 

 on flat pedestals and about the same height, three 

 and a half or four feet — between these were 

 placed two small pieces^, one of a grotesque 

 form, the other I believe a decapitated sraall Jain 

 figure. All thé^e figurea bespeak the vicinity 

 of some Temple, where probably they were 

 placed, excepting No. 24, which from its size 

 must bave been fixed where we found it. 



After crossing a rivulet which runs from a 

 spring not eight hundred yards to the right, 

 something struck me among the hedges to the 

 left, not two hundred yards, distant where l 

 found close to a hedge, a statue of much the same 

 countenance, size and decorations as the gigantic 

 Porters before the Northern Temples ; it knelt 



