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H. Rivett-Carnac— Hough Notes on some 
which the temple is surrounded. These consist mostly of a rough pedestal 
formed of loose stones surmounted by a Mahadeo and yoni. The yoni in the 
largest of these shrines was a solid block of stone, cut to the well-known 
“ jew’s-harp” shape, the upright Mahadeo being slightly carved at the 
summit and base. Some half a dozen others were more or less solid and 
well made according to the conventional construction of these symbols. In 
one case the stone which did service for the yoni , was the cushion-shaped 
finial of some Buddhist temple, the Mahadeo being represented by a carved 
head with high raised cap broken off from some neighbouring ruin. The 
fragment had been inserted cap downwards in the square hole by which the 
cushion had been fixed on to the top of the original structure. 
12. The remaining shrines were of a much poorer type. But this 
last class was to me much the most interesting, as suggesting a possible con¬ 
nection between the rock markings and lingam worship. Bough sketches 
of these types will be found in plate III, which accompanies this paper. The 
position and arrangement of these symbols and the veneration paid to 
them, some having been quite recently decked with small offerings of 
flowers, left no doubt that they equally with the larger and more solid 
shrines represented the Mahadeo and yoni. But whereas in the first noticed 
and better class, as will best he explained by the section E in plate III, the 
Mahadeo is represented by an upright stone, this other and poorer type is 
without the upright, and is apparently a conventional rendering, or sketch 
of these symbols, roughly cut on the stone, the inner circle representing 
the Mahadeo , the outer circle the yoni, the line or lines the gutter, by which 
the libations and offerings are drained off from this as well as from the 
more elaborate class of Mahadeos. 
Of this poorer class, i. e. those without the upright, some 20 or 30 
may he counted in the Chandeshwar enclosure, from the well-defined inner 
and outer circles shewn in Fig. A sketch IY of pi. Ill, to the very poorest 
class in Figs. B and C, sketch Y, which is little more than a rough cup-mark 
surrounded by a circle and “ gutter”, cut on an easily worked slab, split off 
from some neighbouring rock. On one such slab I found cup-marks toge¬ 
ther with the symbols, but as the cups were in all probability on the slab 
before it was split off from the rock and made to do service on the top of 
the shrines, no particular significance can be claimed for this circumstance. 
To facilitate reference, in case no copy of Sir J. Simpson’s work is at 
hand, the several types noticed in the Archaic sculpturings have been copied, 
and accompany this paper. 
13. In the centre of the yard, is a monolith Mahadeo of 4|- feet in height 
above the ground, shewn in pi. IY, sketch YI, fig. A. It has no markings 
on it,—but together with all its surroundings seems very old. The priest in 
charge of the temple held that most of the shrines were very old, and accoun- 
