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CENTRAL INDIA
Shri B.L. Nagarch, Deputy Superintending Arcbacologist, Archaeological Survey of India, Central Circle, Bhopal, has brought to the Editor's notice the recent discovery of a 14-cm, high brass sculpture (plate 182B) at Mandhata, District East Nimar. The central figure, of a beated Tirthankara, is missing from the socket; otherwise the piece, with Vidyādbaras, a Yakşa, a Yakşi, a male cauri-bearer and a male and a female devotee, is intact. The back bears an inscription in Vikrama-samvat 1241 (A.D. 1184).- Editor.]
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