into Nipal, about two hundred and fifty years after the death of Gotama.

Presented to the Asiatic Society of Bengal by Captain (now Major-General) A. Cunningham, 1835-36.

S. 27.-Portion of a pedestal with an inscription1, and with the feet of a Buddhist figure. It measures l′ 4′′ broad. Presented to the Asiatic Society of Bengal by Captain (now Major-General) A. Cunningham, 1835-36.

S. 28.—A seated figure of a Bodhisatwa, but wanting the head, the right arm and half of the left arm. This sculpture is fortunately figured in Colonel Mackenzie's manuscript drawings of his journey into the Upper Provinces of Hindustan, and, in his letter to the Society, dated February 14th, 1815, he observes: "A statue of a male figure of superior workmanship, but unfortunately wanting the head, seated cross-legged in the Hindu style on a seat or throne. It is highly ornamented and on account of the accuracy of the delineation and excellence of the sculpture deserving to be preserved. It was found near the Saranath, adjacent to Benares, and may be presumed to represent a Sovereign Prince." The figure measures 2′ 4′′ high and 2′ 1′′ across the knees. There has evidently been a glory behind the head, but the rest of the figure is fully carved out without any slab behind, as in the generality of the other statues. The body is naked above, with the exception of the ornaments, but the sculptor has indicated a cloth depending from the left arm, over which it was doubtless thrown, and a pendant portion below the limbs to indicate that the figure was not entirely without clothes. Round the neck there is a handsome necklace of the same pattern as the waist belt in S. 18. On the left shoulder is the janvi or Brahmanical cord, and on the left arm there is a handsome armlet. The waist is encircled

'See Arch. Surv. Rep., Vol. I, p. 123, Pl. xxxiv, fig. 3.

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by a broad beaded waist chain, and from the latter a series of elaborate loops hang down over the thighs, and down each leg a long flat tassel of the same nature as the chain depends to the knees. The ankles are encircled by broad bangles with three lines of beads, separated from each other by plain lines. On the sole of each foot is a disc with a smaller one in its centre. At the two front corners of the pedestal on which the cushioned seat rests, there are kneeling figures, two women to the right and a man to the left.

Presented to the Asiatic Society of Bengal by Colonel C. Mackenzie, 5th April 1815.

S. 29.-The feet of a Buddhist figure on a flat pedestal, 1′ 4′′ x 8′′ broad. On the feet there are the remains of red paint with which the statue was originally coloured. The history of this specimen is unknown, but it has all the characters of a Sārnāth sculpture.

S. 30.-An erect figure of Buddha, 3′ 3′′.50 in height, in alto-relievo; on the usual form of slab, but without a nimbus. The face of the figure is well carved, and the whole sculpturing of the figure displays more art than the rest of the statues from Sarnath. The head is thrown slightly to the right side, and the weight of the body rests on the left leg. The expression of the face and the shape of the head are good, and the former is pleasing, the mouth being much better sculptured than in the other figures.

There is a sketch of this sculpture in Colonel Mackenzie's manuscript drawings of his journey into the Upper Provinces of Hindustan, &c., in 1814.

In Dr. Mitra's Catalogue of the Antiquities of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, No. 815, this statue is described as an "Image of Buddha in sand-stone, brought from the Goond country on the Nurbudda. Donor, Hon. F. Shore," and he refers to the Journal of the Asiatic Society, Volume VI,

page 238, but in this reference the statue from the Narbada is said to have had an arch of celestial attendants which this statue has not. It agrees in every detail with Colonel Mackenzie's figure of his Sarnäth statue, so that there can be no doubt regarding its true origin.

Presented to the Asiatic Society of Bengal by Colonel Mackenzie.

S. 31. The body less the head and lower part of the legs of an erect figure of Padmapāņi with the Brahmanical cord. No history.

S. 32.-Two fragments of a nimbus or bhāmandala of what must have been a large figure of Buddha. The characters of the sculpture and stone leave little doubt that the fragments are from Sārnāth, although the history is unknown. There is the usual scalloped border with a beaded ornament between two raised lines, as in S. 14, and a floral pattern external to these, succeeded by a rounded cord-like band consisting of zigzags, beads, diamonds, &c. Over the floral ornament is a Buddhist cherub or Vidyadhara holding a garland.

S. 33.-A fragment of a bhāmadala, measuring l' 10' long by 7' broad; it has the same floral ornaments and other characters as the previous specimen.

Presented to the Asiatic Society of Bengal by Captain (now Major-General) A. Cunningham, 1835-36.

8. 34. An erect figure of Buddha standing on a lotus throne or padmasana, covered in part with the overlapping leaves of the pipal and resting on an elaborate somewhat Indo-Corinthian ornament below it. The sculpture itself measures 3′ 9′′ high, x 1' 4" 50 broad, and the figure of Buddha is 2′ 6′′ high, cut in alto-relievo on a slab with the lateral margins parallel and the top rounded. The figure of Buddha is in the usual attitude of erect figures in the āsīva mudrā.

Springing from each side of the ornament, below the throne, there is a lotus flower, on which stands a small attendant human figure 11′′ 50 high, each holding a chauri in his right hand, and the figure to the right a long-stalked lotus in his left. On the slab forming the background, there is a small vidyadhara near each upper corner.

Presented to the Asiatic Society of Bengal by Captain (now Major-General) A. Cunningham, 1835-36.

S. 35.-An erect figure of Buddha in the āṣīva mudrā, without a slab as a background, measuring 4′ 1′′ high, with the nimbus much injured, both hands and feet broken off, and the lower third of the statue considerably injured by age. Dr. Mitra has included this figure in his Catalogue as one of the statues found by Captain A. Cunningham, and presented by him to the Asiatic Society, but it is figured by Colonel Mackenzie in his drawings of sculptures collected in the Upper Provinces as one of the statues presented by him to the Asiatic Society of Bengal, in his letter dated 8th February 1815.

Presented by Colonel C. Mackenzie, 8th February 1815.

S. 36. An erect figure of Buddha in the āṣīva mudrā without any background of its own and much injured in the arms and feet. The head has a round plain nimbus of which the only ornament is two small wingless vidyādhara. The pedestal is broken off, but, as the statue now stands, the figure is

3' 9" in height.

Presented to the Asiatic Society of Bengal by Captain (now Major-General) A. Cunningham, 1835-36.

S. 37.—A figure of Padmapāņi 3′ 7′′-25 high, but the limbs are imperfect from the ankles downwards. It is in alto-relievo against a slab and carries a long-stalked lotus in its left hand. The mukuța is peculiar. The hair on the sides of the head is in parallel plaits, while on the crown these are gathered

together and twisted round in a circle, over which the individual plaits fall in loops, and some of them even reaching the shoulders. The head is bound by a jewelled fillet bearing a figure of Amitabha, the fourth Dhyani Buddha. In the lobes of the ears there are heavy square ear-rings, and around the neck a necklace of beads. The arms, between the shoulders, are encircled with a double-headed snake-like ornament, resembling in design the similar ornaments on the arms of the two large figures from Patna. A cloth is tied round the waist and is secured by a cord which is ornamented in front with a small rosette. The kamarband passes round the right hip and hangs loosely round the left side tied in a large knot.

No history is given of this sculpture in Dr. Mitra's Catalogue, but the characters of the stone and of the sculpture render it probable that it is from Sārnāth, and that it is possibly one of the sculptures found and presented to the Asiatic Society of Bengal by Captain (now Major-General) A. Cunningham between 1835-36.

S. 38. A fragment of a large sculpture consisting of an erect male human figure, 2 feet high, in the dharma-chakra mudra. It probably represents either Minanatha or Manjughosha. He holds a lotus flower under his left arm. And the little finger of his left hand touches a disc or chakra chinha on his right palm. The head-dress is very elaborate and high, and the head is encircled by a rich jewelled crown, below which, in front, on the sides of the head are seen a number of small spiral curls like those in the female figure in S. 25. The hair is also gathered in a rounded mass behind the head. The ear-rings are large discs, and below and external to them some curly locks of hair fall over the shoulder. The body above the waist is naked, and the remaining ornaments are much the same as in S. 28.