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A few notes on antiquities near Jubbulpoor. 
torous servant revealed to the Badshah the secret of the construction 
of Karanbel. It was poised by curious art on a globe of a few inches 
in diameter; and a small force properly applied served to bring it 
down in utter ruin. 
This shows that the native imagination has been struck, as we 
were very much struck, by the entire ruin and obliteration of form— 
“ the line of confusion and the stones of emptiness. 
On the edge of the mound to the westward mentioned above, on 
the slope descending to a large ravine, are the remains of two small 
temples of very ancient appearance; they have been entirely com- 
posed of sandstone. The smaller has been a simple colonnaded roof 
with a portico round. The larger is of the same character but more 
complex, and I did not ascertain its exact plan* This latter has 
never been completed. Some of the columns are complete and boldly 
carved, showing with great distinctness as one of their features a 
Greek urn, which more or less disguised appears often to enter into 
the members of ancient Indian columns. In others the capital only, 
or the capital with some additional portion of the decorated mem- 
bers of the pillar, rests on blocks of stone squared and accurately 
fitted, but which never have received their ornamental sculpture. 
This ’is an example of the ancient Indian practice of sculpturing 
ornament after the erection of the building. 
Both appear to have been Jain. We found about them, partially 
buried, very fine carved images about half the size of life, represent- 
ing the Buddha-like figure which appears to be commonly found m 
Jain temples. The hair and face are those of Buddha, and so is the 
attitude, except that the hands rest symmetrically on the lap with 
the palms up. There is a quatrefoil on the breast, and a cliatta over 
the head. Figures of worshipping elephants and devotees frame the 
figure. On my description Lord Canning commissioned Major 
Erskine to have these sent to Calcutta. Where they were they would 
soon have been destroyed. One of them had been smashed quite 
recently, apparently in pure mischief. 
About two miles from this place are the celebrated marble rocks of 
the Nerbudda, where the river has forced a narrow passage through 
the nearly vertical marble strata, deserting apparently a more ancient 
channel to the north. On a hill in the island formed by these is a 
* See Fig. 3. 
