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only to a Jain Priest; and, although at first the mention of Brahmans would seem to preclude any reference to the Jain religion, yet the Yatis themselves are usually, if not always, Brahmans, and the naked figures with crisp curled hair, on the base and capital of the pillar, must belong either to the Jains, or to the latter Tântrika Buddhists. I found a similar naked standing figure, canopied by a seven headed snake, inside the great mound of old Rajagriha.
Both of the temples described by Buchanan8 are now in ruins, and as they are not mentioned by Mr. Liston in 1837, they must-have fallen before his visit. Buchanan describes them as pyramidal in form, with two apartments, one over the other, as in the great temple at Buddha-Gaya. Inside he found only two fragments of images, of which one showed the feet of a standing figure with a female votary seated at one side. I made
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