Book Title: Jainism in Bihar
Author(s): P C Roy Choudhary
Publisher: P C Roy Choudhary Patna

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________________ 2. Bottle necked jar in small sizes. 3. The commonest particular type of bowl is of small dimension with a flat base and inturned rims. 4. Cooking pans with small lug-ears on their rims. 5. Lamp with lip and high central projection. 6. Perforated lid with figure of peacock. 7. Dish having round bottom and broad flat edge and with circular projection in centre. 8. The commonest type of cup has a flat base, gradually increasing upwards in various dimensions to an inturned rim. 9. Sorahi (vessel for water). It is interesting to record that Dr. Bloch found over 700 clay sealings and something like 1100 seal impressions of approximately 120 varieties which were mostly of unbaked clay and went back to the Imperial Gupta Kings (4th and 5th centuries A. D.). The scripts on the seals are of the Gupta type, but the emblems on them have no Buddhist symbols. The most numerous of the seals refer to officials, guilds, corporations, temples and private individuals. The seals exhibited at the Patna Museum will show from the grooves on their back that they were perhaps meant to be attached to letters or documents." There is no doubt that the creed of Jainism had a lot of influence in the area at the period to which the relics belong. An ancient Jain image was found in the recent excavation. 99

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