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image installed by Jinabhadra-gani noted above. The goddess wears an ekavali (?), a broad necklace and an uraḥ-sutra with a mangala-mala and a bell at its end. A lower garment worn in vikaccha-fashion has a design of broad bands intercepted with circular marks.
The goddess has a mango-bunch in her right hand and a citron in the left. A small child sits on her left lap. Another son is shown standing beside her on the right. There is a damaged inscription on the back, engraved in characters assignable to the latter half of the sixth century A.D.1
A very beautiful head of a Jina image (plate 66B) is preserved in this hoard. The beautifully-modelled young face with a broad forehead, elongated eyes, a straight nose, small lips with the lower lip slightly extended and silver-studded eyes, is of excellent workmanship. The neck is of the kambu-grīvā type, a typically Gupta characteristic of a maha-puruşa and his ideal form. The head cannot be later than circa 600.
UMAKANT P. SHAH
1 Shah, op. cit., 1959, fig. 14, also see fig. 74e for the inscription on the back. Ibid., figs. 16a, 16b.
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