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the earlier examples, such as that at Allahabad, the face is very clearly 
marked; though even there the hair of the head and the moustaches are 
worked off into a scroll or leaf pattern. In later work, of which numerous 
specimens may be seen in the accompanying illustrations of different dates 
ranging between the two limits fixed by the Allahabad pillar at the begin¬ 
ning and the Sahar columns at the end, the eyes are made so protuberant, 
and the other features so distorted and confused by the more elaborate 
treatment of the foliage and the introduction of other accessories that the 
proportions of a human face are almost and in some cases are altogether 
destroyed. The tradition however exists to the present day ; and a Ma¬ 
thura stone-mason, if told to carve a grotesque for a corbel or string¬ 
course of any building, will at once draw a design, in which are reproduced 
all the peculiarities of the old models. 
7. Miscellaneous Antiquities , Mathura Museum. 
Plate No. 13 shews two Buddhist rails of early character. The one 
giving the representation of a stupa , to which I have already referred, was 
brought from the khera of Jaysinhpura, a village on the road between 
Mathura and Brindaban. The other I dug out of one of the Chauwara 
mounds, where I found also a copper coin of Kanishka’s reign. The 
columns with their bell-capitals surmounted by winged lions, and the 
miniature window-fronts or pediments, with which the architraves are 
decorated, illustrate the characteristic features of the architecture of the 
period. The upper group represents a sacred tree, enclosed in a railing, 
with two devotees worshipping it, the one having a wreath in his hand and 
the other a chauri. Below is an inscription in a single line ending with 
the word danam , which records the name of the donor ; but though most' 
of the letters are clear, I cannot determine what the name is. The second 
group is probably a scene from one of the Jatakas, to which the two birds 
will probably at some time give a clue. 
Plate No. 14 shews a Buddhist rail, also of the Indo-Scythian period, 
of unusually large dimensions, the height of the stone, though a piece of it 
has been broken off at the bottom, being still 6 ft. 4 in. It is sculptured 
with a female figure, almost nude but for her metal ornaments, who carries 
a wicker-work umbrella, the stick of which is so long that it rests upon the 
ground. In the compartment above is a very curious bas-relief represent¬ 
ing two monkeys and a bird, seated on basket-work chairs, with a hideously 
mis-shapen dwarf standing on the ground between them and apparently 
shedding tears. 
In Plate 15 the two Buddhist rails placed on either side of the lowest 
range of sculptures are the same of which a back view is given in Plate 13. 
