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hands are similar to those of the famous statue of Venus of the Capitol. 
But in the Mathura statue the left hand is brought across the nght 
breast, while the right hand holds up a small portion of drapery. The 
head is slightly inclined towards the right shoulder, and the hair is 
dressed in a new and peculiar manner, with long curls on each side of 
the face, which fall from a large circular ornament on the top of the 
head. The back of the figure is supported by a thick cluster of lotus 
stalks covered with buds and flowers, which are very gracefully arranged 
and boldly executed. The plump face with its broad smile is the least 
satisfactory part of this work. Altogether this statue is one of the best 
specimens of unaided Indian art that I have met with. I presume 
that it represents a dancing girl, and that it once adorned one of the 
gateways of the great Siuwpa near the monastery of Huvishka. 
179. Three statues of ions have also been discovered, but they 
are inferior both in design and in execution to most of the other 
sculptures. They are all of the same height, 3 feet, and are all in the 
same attitude, but two of them have the left foot advanced, while the 
third has the right foot brought forward. The attitudes are stiff, and 
the workmanship especially of the legs, is hard, wiry and unnatural. 
It is the fore part only of the animal that is given, as if issuing out of 
the block of stone in rear, from which I mfer that they must originally — 
have occupied the two sides of some large gateway, such as we may 
suppose to have belonged to the great monastery of Huvishka. 
180. The most numerous remains are the stone pillars of the Bud- 
dhist railings, of which at least three different sizes have been found. 
Those of the largest size are 4} feet in height, with a section of 12 
by 6 inches. When complete with base and coping, this railing would 
have been about 7 feet in height. The middle-sized pillars are 3 feet 
8 inches high, with a section of 9 by 43 inches. The railings formed 
of these pillars would have been 5} feet in height. Those of the 
smallest size are 2? feet high, witha section of 64 by 3? inches, 
which would have formed a railing of only 4 feet in height. Of this 
last size no more than six specimens have yet been found, but two of 
them are numbered in the ancient Gupta numerals as 118 and 129, so 
that many more of them still remain to be discovered. If we assume 
the number of these pillars to have been no more than 129, the length 
of railing which they formed would have been 144 feet, or with two ‘ 
