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ROCK-CUT TEMPLES AT BÅDÅMI.
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of the verandah is divided by cross bearns cut on a sinhâsana. The next, in the place of Nir. in the rock into seven recessed panels each șiti, is mounted on a horse, like Mangala, filled with sculpture. Of these, six are repre- the Hindu Mars. The figure on the left of the sented on the fifth plate to this paper. The panel is dshásana gatam-seated on a sort of first of these, being the panel to the left or east shark as his vehicle; the position is Varu. of the middle one, consists of a central circular na's, andas heisgiven this vehicle in the Matsya compartment surrounded by four smaller oval Purana, instead of a stag, and here has also the ones, divided by bunches of water-lilies, so aspása, or snare, the emblem of Varuna, we must to fill up a circle concentric with the first. The suppose it is intended for him. The next, on corners of the square are filled in with human the deer, might be taken for Soma or Chanand animal heads ending in arabesques. In dra, but in the Dánakhanda (adh. v.) of the the central area Śiva is represented, four- Chaturvarga Chintamani, Vâyu, the Dikpala of armed, gented on his h II, with his sponse the north-west, is described as seated on a deer; Pârvati behind him. The four oval compart- and that at the top is probably intended for ments outside this contain each two figures, Chandra, who sometimes takes the place of apparently all males; and (ne of them being Kuvora, as lord of the North.Kuvera is Gana pati or Pramatha dipa, the son of Siva sometimes figured as borne by a ram, Chandra and leader of his retinue, they are probably all on a hare, in a chariot, &c. intended as gana-nayakas, ar principal members The third panel represents the compartment of his gana. The corner figures are the heads at the east end of the verandah, where again of an elephant, man, makara, and fish, ending the figure in the centre is doubtless intended for in floral terminations.
Pradyumna, the son of Krishna, an incarnaThe second panel represented on the plate is tion of K â ma, and one of the four Vyuhas of the central one of the seven, and has Vishnu Vishnu, two-armed, with his club in the in the middle, as lord of the Zenith, -four- right hand, seated on a pair of makaras, and armed as usual, and holding up the chakra in attended by two female chauri-bearers-perhaps one right hand, and the sankha in a left one: he his wives Rati and Prithi. The rest of the wears a high square-topped cap (as in Figs. 1, 4, panel is filled by four square compartments in and 5) already described, while his wives $rior the corners, and as many oblong ones at the Lakshmi and Bhumidevi are huddled in sides. The corners are filled with pairs, and beside him. Round this central circle are eight in one case three figures-males and females ovals each containing some divinity, as in the much in the style of the flying attendants above usual figures of the Dikpala-mandala. Above both Baaddha and Hindu images; and the side the sankha Brahma is easily recognized, seated compartments have pairs of figures with human ascetic-fashion on his lotus, four-armed and and brute heads, and ending in ornamental three-faced, oconpying the place usually assigned | arabesques. to Śiva or İsana. Below him is Indra, regent The next, being the second from the end and of the East, holding his vajra, with his wife between this last and the first described, is arSuchi or Indrâni, on the elephant Airavati. ranged in the usual style, having Indra seated Next to him is Agni, god of fire and regont of (rather awkwardly, it must be owned) on his the South-East, on his ram, and above him a fly favourite elephant, with an attendant holding ing figure, probably of Dhurma or Smoke. the royal umbrella over his head as ancient Below Vishņu is a figure on a lion with an king of gods. The eight smaller oval panels attendant, which might be taken for Sarya round him contain in five cases a pair-male and his charioteer Aruna, but it is probably and female-of gandharvas and apsarasas, and Yama, the regent of the South, who is described in the remaining three a single female, all appain the Matsya Purana (adh. cclxi.) as seated rently enjoying or contributing to revels, dano
+ If both these figures were not intended to be female, are:-1 Indr, of the E., on the elephant Air&vati; 3 the one kneeling on Vishpa's right might be Sira or sans
Agni, of the S.E.- ram; 3, Yams, of the 8.- black as lord of the Nadir.
buffalo; 4 Nirriti, of the S.W.- crocodile; 5, Varuns, of 1 Cf. plate in Sir W. Jones's paper on the Hindu
the W- stag; Vaya, of the N.W.- Bhata; 7, Kuven, Zodiac, As. Res. vol. II. p. 808 ; Moor, Hind. Panth. pl. 88. or Chandrn, of the N-self-moving chariot; and 8, Lokos The Dikapllakse, or Ashfadikap Alakon, with their vahanas, or Livars, of the N.X. ball.
