________________ Some Aspects of the Vaisali Antiquities at the Patna Museum 247 3. The commonest particular type of bowl is of small dimension with a flat base and inturned rim. 4. Cooking pans with small lug-cars 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 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. A few of the interesting seals may be described thus : 1. The device is a fantail peacock, facing which is the emblem characteristic of the Mauryan dynasty and of the eastern mintage of Gupta coinage, The legend reads Vyaghravalasya, i.e., (the seal) of Vyaghravala, who is shown to have been a banker on the authority of a seal from this collection. 2. The device is a small lion, seated on a flat pedestal, facing. 3. The device is a small conventional Sankha, high in the field. 4. The device is very small modelled bull, standing to right. 5. The device is an unusually clear and perfect representation of a stupa, hemispherical in form, resting on a platform, surrounded by a three-barrel railing, with box-like receptacle or railing on the top. 6. The device is the representation of a lion standing, to right, over the prostrate form of some other animal, presumably a deer whose head bent back so as to be looking downwards. The forelegs of the lion are upon this figure, and his tail is swishing proudly in the air.
