THE SEVEN PAGODAS. 



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The next figure but three on Siva's proper right is a figure 

 of a man who looks as if he were a stone-cutter, holding a long 

 chisel in his left hand, whilst the other (right hand) is raised as 

 if in the act of striking as with a hammer. 



At the bottom of the rock between the shrine and the cleft 

 of the rock are two figures next to the simple Naga, seeming to 

 bring offerings to present to the Naga divinity ; one is clad and 

 carries a vessel on his left shoulder, whilst the other bears a tall 

 spiral article, a little like a candlestick, or a flat-topped stand 

 with a tall spiral stalk. 



The animals are elephants, lions, tigers, hippopotamus (?), 

 deer, monkeys, pig, birds, a cat, rats (?), and a tortoise. The 

 attitude and expression of the elephants and of many of the 

 wild animals is very good and natural. One of the leonine 

 animals has an erect head with something like horns, the same 

 as those sculptured on the pillars of the adjacent monoliths 

 and caves. 



I7f. On the north side of the sculptured part of the rock a 

 flight of steps may be seen leading from the ground level to the 

 terrace of the rock above the sculptures, and beside it the surface 

 of the rock has been cut into a precipitous slide, or smooth 

 slipping way between raised edges, the use of which is not 

 apparent. 



A similar flight of steps and slide are to be seen at the Shore 

 temple (No. 6) leading down from the (east) front of the temple 

 to the water. 



Panca Pandava Cave. Braddock's No. 12, p. 92; and para. 

 10, p. 205, of Kdvali-LaTcshmayya. 



16. This excavation adjoins the rock sculpture of Arjuna's 

 penance No. 17 on the south side. 



It consists of a seven-bayed excavation, 47 feet wide, north- 

 south, and 10 feet high, supported by rows of pillars standing 

 about 6 feet apart, the shaft portion of each having a diameter 

 of about one -sixth its height. 



In plan it may be described as having five rows of six piers each 



