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On the Antiquities of Mainpuri. 



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or jewel shewn in the margin ; whilst the 

 over-hranching vase does not fail to assert 

 its prominent place. 



There were also remains of statues of 

 both male and female figures nearly nude, 

 with elaborate waist-belts ; but these 

 appeared to me to belong to a time when 

 the sensuous Jains were supplanting the 

 Buddhists. 



It is very curious to trace on these 

 stones records how the purer faith of 

 S'akya Muni mingled and became in- 

 corporated with and debased by the 

 grosser superstitions of S'iva and Vishnu 

 — to see how the pure and, so to speak, 

 classical severity of rendering of the 

 human form gave way to the sensuality 

 of engrafted creeds — how S'akya him- 

 self became adorned, needed clothing to cover him, instead of that 

 wondrous veil of drapery generally indicated by merely the faintest 

 waist-line or mark across the thigh, and required " tika" marks and 

 tiara, how the forms of his attendant female devotees bent and twisted 

 themselves with their distended busts, and how, in truth, the small spark 

 of light S'akya had revived died out. Again, wandering about the 

 village, one finds everywhere traces of carvings on blocks of stone built 

 into walls. See below. These much resemble those at Malaun which 

 I have before described. 



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Some are like the figures at Mathura and Bhilsa ; whilst I could not 

 find that any Hindu temple had ever taken the place of the original 

 Buddhist or Jain structure, in which, as afore-noted, it is probable 

 that some of the Hindu Pantheon had found a place. 





