1878.] 
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The draped Buddha, which I rescued from the bed of the Jamuna at 
Jaysifihpura, is of early date and executed in a different style from most 
of those found in the neighbourhood. The arabesque pilaster next to it 
is a good specimen of the mediaeval Hindu period. I found it in opening 
out the new paved way along the river bank in the city. The fragment of 
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wall-decoration and the head are from the Kankali tila, and the larger stone, 
covered with miniature temple fa£ades of the same style as the caves at 
Karli and Ajanta, I brought from Mahaban. 
In the second tier (over an intermediate row of three Buddhist cross¬ 
bars) the small bas-relief, that occupies the place in the centre, is very 
curious. It represents a rustic wooden throne, with drapery thrown over 
it and a footstool set in front, and two attendants standing at the back, 
each with a chauri to keep off the flies. The object of veneration is a 
relic-casket, which is exposed upon the chair. Next to the pillar with the 
figure of Maya Devi under the sal tree is a stone that I brought from 
Shergarh in the Chhata Pargana, where I found it imbedded in'one of the 
towers of a Fort built according to tradition by the Emperor Slier Shah. 
It is the only example that I have seen in India of the use of the trefoiled 
circle as a decoration. It is the special characteristic of the architecture of 
Kashmir, a style which I am inclined to believe once spread much farther 
south, and was of purely Indian origin ; while the later styles were modified 
more or less by Greek influences. The festoon is the same, as in the two 
flanking pillars (from the Kankali tila) which I ascribe to about the 
year 400 A. D. the flower-vase being here used only, without the grotesque 
mask which was of somewhat later introduction. On the other side of the 
enthroned relic is what ajipears to be the spandril of a doorway with an 
outer border of grapes and vine leaves, and in the jamb the model of a 
triumphal pillar with bell-capital and winged lions and an elephant stand¬ 
ing above the abacus. The upper portion of such a pillar with an inscrip¬ 
tion on the abacus, dated in the reign of Huvishka samhat 39, is also in 
the museum, and is figured by General Cunningham in volume III of his 
archaeological survey. 
Of the two nude Jaina figures in the third tier, the one with the group 
of devotees below it, adoring the chalcra , is of special interest on account of 
the inscription, which gives the date both in letters and figures as 
samhat 57. It would seem either that the century is omitted, or that 
some other era than than of Vikramaditya is intended : for the figure has 
rather a modern appearance, and the letters, which are very scratchy and 
ill-formed, are quite unlike the bold characters in the other inscriptions, 
when the king’s name is given as well as the date and which are therefore 
known to be of the Indo-Scythian period. 
