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the left thigh. Between the feet is a small grotesque booted figure, gather- 
ing up a set of reins in his hands and waving a whip over his shoulders. 
Below this is a row of seven horses galloping from left to right, and drawing 
a chariot. On the other side of the main figure are attendants, standing 
hooted, and wearing curious caps and circular earrings. Above these, dimi- 
nutive female figures are seen, discharging arrows right and left. The figure 
may be either Hindu or Buddhist.” The next figure [LXI\ .] is purely Hin- 
du (for at Tillarah as in the Nalanda rains Hindu and Buddhist idols are 
mixed together). Like the one last described, it is unbroken. It is “an 
alto-relievo in black basalt two feet four inches high, containing figures of 
Durga and Siva. Siva is four-handed, and is elaborately dressed and orna- 
mented. He is seated on a bull. The upper hand to the right grasps a 
lotus, while the other rests playfully on the chin of the goddess. His lower 
hand on the opposite side passes round her body and supports her left breast. 
The one above it grasps a trident. His right leg is turned outwards to the 
right, but the left one is twisted over the bull’s head, so that the right leg 
of the goddess rests upon it. Her right hand passes round his neck, while 
the left grasps a mirror. She is seated on a lion. In his right ear is a cir- 
cular ring and in his left an oblong drop. In her case the arrangement is 
reversed. His hair is rolled up into a ball first, while hers is dressed almost 
precisely after the fashion of George Ilnd’s time.” Another figure represents 
a tfaWiie-handed goddess (quite perfect) with a Buddha seated in the hair. 
Each hand contains some weapon or ornament, e. g., a string of beads, an arrow, 
&c. The creed is engraved above. This idol is unique as far as Bihar is con- 
cerned. 
About four miles south-east of Tillarah is a village called Ongari, in 
which there is a splendid tank called the Siiraj Pok har. To the north of it 
there is a temple containing an image of Surjya, and a pit of broken Bud- 
dhist figures. Under a heap of bricks and rubbish, I picked out two idols of 
great beauty and differing essentially in design from those generally found. 
About a mile and a half from Ongari, across the rice fields to the 
south, arc the remains of a large town, called Biswak or Biswa. Like Tilla- 
rah, this place gave its name to a parganah which, according to the Ain-i- 
Akbari, once contained 35,318 bighahs, and which stretches away nearly as far 
east as the banks of the Panchana. There are two enormous tanks to the 
east of the village, and two mud forts of considerable size and antiquity. 
To the north of the first tank is a long line of tumuli, which mark the site 
of some large Buddhist vihara. I cleared away one end of it, and came on 
a perfect heap of figures, some of them quite unique. With one exception 
(that of an idol of Ganesh) all the remains discovered by me were purely 
Buddhistic. One figure is eight-handed and somewhat resembles the many- 
handed divinity of Tillarah, and another is a Padmopani Buddda nearly life- 
