Indian Antiquary Vol 09

SR No.: 032501
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 398
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 17 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[FEBRUARY, 1880.
Heliodorus which contains other Indian ideas, METRICAL VERSIONS FROM THE In the 13th chapter of the IIIrd book Kalasiris
MAHABHARATA. speaking of the gods, makes the following remark:
BY JOHN MUIR, D.C.L., LL.D., &c. Τους μεν δή βεβήλους καν διαλάθoιεν, την δε σοφού
(Continued from p. 29.) γνώσιν ουκ άν διαφύγοιεν, αλλά τοις τ' οφθαλμδις άν FATE OF THOSE WHO HAVE NO BELIEF IN VIRTUE; γνωσθειες ατενές διόλου βλέποντες και το βλέφαρον
BENEFITS OF FAITH. OŰTOR'émiuúortes, k. T.1. CHARLES H. TAWNEY.
Mahabharata, iii. 13747f.
The fearful doom of all is sure JAMES WALES THE PAINTER.
Who laugh at men whose lives are pure; In the Council Chamber at Bombay there are
Who duty's binding force deny, three large pictures, the first of Baji Rao, the
And scout all virtue as a lie. second of the N&na Fadnavis, and the last of
The man who loves to live in sin Madhavji Sindia. All three were painted by
Is like a huge inflated skin; Mr. James Wales, an artist who arrived in India
With wisdom's show himself he cheats, in 1791, accompanied apparently by his family, as
For vain are all his proud conceits. his eldest daughter was afterwards married to
No sin can want of faith exceed, Sir Charles Malet, the Resident at Poona, and
While men by faith from sin are freed." became the mother of Sir Alexander Malet, so
The faithful man throws off his sins; well known in diplomatic circles, and who still sur.
As snakes cast off their worn-out skins. vires. The natural taste of the artist seems to have been in the direction of ancient architecture
NOTES AND QUERIES. and sculpture. He was a Scotchman, hailing from
1. WOOLLY HAIR, AND ELONGATED EAR-LOBES Peterhead, on the coast of Aberdeen, and was
OP BUDDHA.-Where can I find any explanation of educated at the Marischal College in the local
the Negro-like hair, short crisp curls, with which capital. His exhibited pictures at the Academy
Buddha is generally represented in his statues P were portraits, but in this country he devoted
Recently at Kananj and Sankesar (Fatehgarh much time to the cave temples and other carvings,
district) I have seen several statues of Buddha working in collaboration with Thomas Daniel at
with this conventional treatment of the hair. the Elura excavations. He worked also at Ele
In these, and in other statues also, the lobes of phanta, making drawings of the sculptures there,
the ear are greatly elongated (seo, also Moor's and it was in pursuit of these researches that he
Hindu Pantheon). Has this ever been accounted met his death. The jungle grows thick in that
for? If so, where P part of the Island of Salsette where the interesting
At Manipuri, an old Zamindar, an Ahir, called Buddhist works are found; and though the ac
upon me. The lobes of both his ears were tual hill itself in which occur the caves of Kanheri
elongated in the manner shown in the representais nearly bare, it has to be approached through
tions of Buddha, and hung down detached from tangles of undergrowth. Mr. Wales is reported
the cheek, to a depth of about 2 inches. This to have died at Salsette, whither he had gone to
formation did not appear to have boen caused make drawings of the excavations; we may presume
artificially, and the ears showed no marks of he died at Thånd, which is some five miles from
earrings, which, if heavy, would of course prolong Kanheri, and unhealthy exposure was probably
the lobe of the ear.-H. Rivetr-CARNAC. the cause of this sad and sudden termination of his labours. If he effected anything at Kaņheri, With regard to the query as to the woolly hair it does not seem to have been preserved,' as the and elongated ear-lobes of Buddha, Mr. W. Simpexamination of the remains there is always asso- Bon, the artist to the Illustrated London News, ciated with other names. We find no notice in recently gave a lecture at the Society of Arts in the Indian Handbook of any monument to this London on Afghanistan and its antiquities. He worthy man.-The Pioneer.
mentioned the immense number of Buddhist 1 "Mr. Daniel's fine picture of the Puna Darbar is an- work of Mr. Wales, is now in possession of J. Fergusson, Esq., rivalled perhaps in oriental grouping, character, and co- D.O.L., of London. It contains sketches of the large slabe tume; ... It was painted for Sir Charles Malet from at Borwali, covered with carvings of fleets and armies in sketches by the late Mr. Wales; and the artist has shown | conflict. &o.. of the curious little Buddhist Chaitys cave at the time when Sir Charles, then our ambassador at the Kondivta in Salnette, from which cave the inscription was Court of Pun attended by his suite, delivered to his copied by him, and with others from Elura, &o, kiven by Highness the Peshwa, in full Darbar, the treaty of alliance, him to Sir Charles Ware Malet, who sent them to Bengal ratified by his Majesty, between Great Britain and his for translation by Capt. Wilford, and publication in the Highness; made, preparatory to the war between the triple Asiatic Researches (vol. V., pp. 135-141).-ED. allied powers and Tipu in 1790."-This picture was well Thia, in sound, is very like the Antinomian doctrine of engraved, and published by Cribb in Holborn. Moor's justification. The object of faith, however, in each case is Hindoo Pantheon (1810), p. 174.
different. A collection of sketches in water coloure, doubtless the
rivalled perhapewas beintales, and the mbassador to his