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SALIWANKUPPAM. 153
Above this niche is a richly carved lintel, so absolutely identical
with the one over the doorway of Draupadi's Rath (woodcut No. 27).
that there hardly is any doubt that they are of the same age, almost,
it might be supposed, that they were carved by the same sculptor.
In the left shrine is Siva, four-armed, wearing a deep necklace of
large beads, rather balls, crossing on his breast, attended by two
worshippers and two of his dwarf gana, one with a sword and the
other with an offering. The central shrina is sculptured in nearly
the same way, and the third contains Vishnu, similarly accompanied.
Or was it intended that the first should be Brahma ? If so, it
would only be another instance of a favourite habit at that age of
representing the triad, as manifested in the Lankeswara cave in
the flank of the rock of Kailasa at Elura and elsewhere.1 In front
of this cave is a great stone bowl.
On the east side of this same rock are carved an elephant, about
5 feet high, a monkey, and a peacock, with the heads of three
smaller elephants.
Quarrying operations are now going on quite close to this, if
they have not already destroyed these shrines.
13. The above exhausts the caves in the ridge, but to the south
of the " Shore pagoda" are two rocks, each with a recess hewn
in its west side. The northern one is surrounded by Yali or £ar-
ddla heads, like the one at Saliwankuppam, to be described here-
after, and the other has one great Yali face above, and other figures
round the front. Before it lies a large lion couchant on a stone,
and on the back of the rock is carved a horse, and a great elephant's
head with a small cell over it as at Saliwankuppam. The carving
inside is so abraded as to be unrecognisable.
North from the structural pagoda is another little shrine or cell
in a rock.
Saliwankuppam.
Three miles north from the last, among the sand on the sea
"each, some rocks crop up, in two of which cells have been cut.
One is a cave-temple called the Atichandeswara Mandapa, but
Col. Mackenzie, made three careful drawings of these figures, which are in his
volume on the Antiquities of Maha Bali Purarainthe India House Library, Nos. 15, 18,
*n 17. There seems little doubt that they are intended to represent the Hindu triad
out m a very pure and simple form.
Above this niche is a richly carved lintel, so absolutely identical
with the one over the doorway of Draupadi's Rath (woodcut No. 27).
that there hardly is any doubt that they are of the same age, almost,
it might be supposed, that they were carved by the same sculptor.
In the left shrine is Siva, four-armed, wearing a deep necklace of
large beads, rather balls, crossing on his breast, attended by two
worshippers and two of his dwarf gana, one with a sword and the
other with an offering. The central shrina is sculptured in nearly
the same way, and the third contains Vishnu, similarly accompanied.
Or was it intended that the first should be Brahma ? If so, it
would only be another instance of a favourite habit at that age of
representing the triad, as manifested in the Lankeswara cave in
the flank of the rock of Kailasa at Elura and elsewhere.1 In front
of this cave is a great stone bowl.
On the east side of this same rock are carved an elephant, about
5 feet high, a monkey, and a peacock, with the heads of three
smaller elephants.
Quarrying operations are now going on quite close to this, if
they have not already destroyed these shrines.
13. The above exhausts the caves in the ridge, but to the south
of the " Shore pagoda" are two rocks, each with a recess hewn
in its west side. The northern one is surrounded by Yali or £ar-
ddla heads, like the one at Saliwankuppam, to be described here-
after, and the other has one great Yali face above, and other figures
round the front. Before it lies a large lion couchant on a stone,
and on the back of the rock is carved a horse, and a great elephant's
head with a small cell over it as at Saliwankuppam. The carving
inside is so abraded as to be unrecognisable.
North from the structural pagoda is another little shrine or cell
in a rock.
Saliwankuppam.
Three miles north from the last, among the sand on the sea
"each, some rocks crop up, in two of which cells have been cut.
One is a cave-temple called the Atichandeswara Mandapa, but
Col. Mackenzie, made three careful drawings of these figures, which are in his
volume on the Antiquities of Maha Bali Purarainthe India House Library, Nos. 15, 18,
*n 17. There seems little doubt that they are intended to represent the Hindu triad
out m a very pure and simple form.