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in alto-relievo of elephants, of human figures of both sexes, and 
ofBoodh,who is represented in some places as sitting cross-legged, 
with his hands in the posture common among the Cingalese ; in 
others he is erect, but in all he is attended by figures in the 
act of adoration ; and in one place two figures standing on the lotus 
are fanning him with chouries, while two others are suspending a 
rich crown over his head. I think, therefore, that it is beyond 
dispute that the whole was .dedicated to Boodh. The detail of the 
different ornaments and figures, with drawings of them, I sent to 
the Bombay Literary Society, in whose works they will appear; it 
is therefore unnecessary to repeat them here. The inscriptions are 
numerous in different parts, and are all in the same unknown charac- 
ter which is found at the Seven Pagodas, and is described in the fifth, 
volume of the Asiatic Researches. We copied all that we could 
discover, and chalked over the letters for the benefit of any travel- 
ler that might come after us. There may be others concealed 
under the coat of chunam which still covers a great part of the 
wall ; where it is broken off, the marks of the chissel are perfectly 
visible. 
The ribs on the roof, which are seen in the drawing, are of wood, 
and are very difficult to be accounted for. They cannot be sup- 
posed to be of an equal age with the excavation, yet who would 
have been at the expense of replacing them? The followers of 
Boodh no longer worship here ; the country is in possession of 
their great enemies, the Brahmins, and the pagoda itself is considered 
as haunted by evil spirits, in defiance of the vicinity of the holy 
goddess Bowannie; so much so, that the native draftsman who drew 
the cave at Ellora for Sir Charles Mallet, could not be induced to 
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