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inscription. The face is nearly life size and the features hideous — the hair 
has been drawn like the feathers of a peacock’s tail. A cobra’s head peeps over 
the left shoulder. The earrings are circular, depressed in the centre and very 
large. There are two necklaces round the neck and two long flower garlands. 
A spangled cloth descends from the wrist to the ankles. The upper right 
hand grasps a sword and the left a trident [trisul]. The objects in the lower 
hands I cannot distinguish- — one being perhaps a gourd or pumpkin. The left 
foot is drawn up underneath the body, and the right rests on a lotus blossom 
below the seat of the throne. Babii Ram K. Bhandarkar reads the in- 
scription : — [illegible] ^ [illegible] ^ [one letter] 
“ A gift to the gods by Sai Jena — Sambat 892 — 5th day — (i. e., A. D. 
837.) 
[VII] A veiy beautiful and perfect figure of Buddha in black basalt, 
three feet four inches high. The right hand rests on the knee, and the legs are 
crossed — the left hand being parallel to the left foot, which is marked with 
the sign of sovereignty. The body is supported by a cushion, and the hair is 
ruffled. A very beautiful halo covered with geometrical pattern surrounds 
the head, and above it rise three branches of the sacred pipal tree, each leaf 
of which is carved with extraordinary minuteness. Beneath the figure, a 
cloth depends from the throne, the sides of which gradually incline towards 
each other — disclosing at each corner a well-executed figure of a lion in the 
act of tearing to pieces the skull of a fallen elephant. There is an orna- 
ment in the neck and left arm, but apparently no drapery at all. — [XII] 
Figure of Buddha in black basalt, very well executed and identical with 
that described in the “ Ruins of Nalanda Monastery,” p. 12, except that the 
base consists of a group of devotees instead of the more common Hon throne. — 
[LVIII.] Standing figure of Buddha, two feet six inches high. Plain back 
ground, without the usual ornamented border. The dress, etc., as in No. IV. 
The figure rests on a simple lotus leaf pedestal, and there is no throne at the 
base. On the right side there is an elephant and to the left an attendant in 
the same costume as the main figure and holding a mace in the right hand. — 
[LXXVI] Curious alto-relievo carving, two feet eleven by two. At the base 
are small lotus-leaf thrones. On the two principal ones are seated crowned 
figures with a back ground of snake-lioods. Right and left of these principal 
figures are seated Nagiis, with enormous tails turned upwards over their heads 
and the heads of the larger figures, and finally fantastically twisted into a 
knot between them. The portions of the stone above the figures, between 
them and the tails of the Nagds, are covered with inscriptions. The peculiar- 
ity of the position of the writing renders the taking an impression more than 
ordinarily difficult, but it has been attempted both by Babu Rajendralala 
Mitra and General Cunningham, and I hope soon to possess a transcript of 
it. It appears to contain the word Mahipala, as on the gate of the temple of 
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