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Kavyanusasana beautified by Mattavāraṇam and its main roads are decorated by the presence of mighty elephants. There are also beautiful Jaina temples and great sages in the city.” i Mr. Jackson describes in detail the Jaikopa (Yakshakūpa) or Yaksha Well and the temple of Jagatsvāmi-the Sun.* The most interesting thing near the lake is a massive broken statue. Mr. Jackson after describing the statue in detail says “In spite of its featureless face and its broken hands and feet the figure has considerable dignity. The head is well set and the curls and diadem are an effective ornament. The chest and the full rounded belly are carved with skill. The main fault in proporation, the over-shortened lower arm and leg and the narrowness of the throne, are due to the want of depth in the stone. The chief details of interest are the figure's head-dress and the ball of stone in its right hand. The head-dress seems to be a wig with a row of crisp round curls across the brow and four lines of long curls hanging down to the shoulders and the crisp curls on the top of the head. The mukuta or diadem has three upright faces, a front face over the nose and side faces over the ears joined together by two rounded bands. At first sight the stone - ball in the right hand seems a cocoanut which the king might hold in dedicating the lake." Examination shows it to be a human head. (B. G. P. 457.)
“The appearance of the figure, its massive well
* An architectural term meaning a projecting part of a house looking like a protruded neck. getal HAITOT 37. F. 8-66.
X For Yaksha-kūpa-māhātmya see Adhyāya 22 and for Jagatsvāmin see A. 43 of Srimāla Pura'a.
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