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BADAMI CAVES. 415
The attendant female wears a loose kirtle held up by a richly
jewelled belt. Her earrings are different—that in the right ear
consisting of a long link hanging down to the shoulder, and in the end
of it a thick jewelled ring and short pendant; the otber is a broad
thick disc like that known in Bengal by the name of dhenri}
Floating overhead on each side are two figures, male and female,
with offerings, and having elaborate headdresses. Her hair is done
up in a very elaborate style, with a profusion of pearls over the
forehead. This union of Siva and Parvati in a single body per-
sonifies the principle of life and production in its double aspect—the
active principle under the name of Purusha, and the female or
passive under that of Prakrit!2 On the male side the figure of
Arddhanarinateswara is usually painted dark blue or black, and
vermilion or orange on the left or female side, but sometimes the
colours are white (Siva's proper colour) and yellow.
The roof is divided by imitation beams into five compartments. In
the central one is a figure of the serpent Sesha very similar to that
over the antechamber in the great temple at Pattadkal.3 The head
and bust are well formed, and project boldly from the centre of the
coil. In a compartment to the right, on a cloud or boss 2 feet 6
mches in diameter, are a male and female well cut, the male (Yahsha)
^ith a sword, and the female (Apsaras) drawing forward a veil that
floats behind her head. In the corresponding compartment on the
°ther side are two rather smaller figures; and in the end panels are
lotuses.
The entrance to the hall itself, as in the two already described,
differs from what we found in the Buddhist cave-temples. The
front wall of the Vihara with its small windows and doors admitted
100 kittle light; and so here, while retaining the verandah in front
1 Rajendraia, Mitra's Antiquities of Orissa, vol. i. p. 98, and Plate XXVII., Fig.
• -It is to be regretted that we have no descriptive catalogue of female ornaments
"^ in India.
embodies the central idea or nature-worship, and occurred to the early Greeks,
'e see from the old Orphic hymn preserved by Stobasus, beginning
Zeus apa-vj}/ yevero, Zev: au.fiporaq eirXero uvufij.
" Zeus was a male, Zeus became a deathless damsel."
obams, Echg. Phys., ed. Heeren, vol. i. p. 42 ; conf. Muir, Orig. Sansk. Texts,
;'-PP. 9, 36 ; vol. iv. p. 331; and vol. v. p. 369.
also re6 • ArcL RePort> Plate XX-> ¥iS- 4> and Plate XL-> FiS- 5- TWs one is
Presented on the cover of Mr. Fergusson's Tree and Serpent Worship.
The attendant female wears a loose kirtle held up by a richly
jewelled belt. Her earrings are different—that in the right ear
consisting of a long link hanging down to the shoulder, and in the end
of it a thick jewelled ring and short pendant; the otber is a broad
thick disc like that known in Bengal by the name of dhenri}
Floating overhead on each side are two figures, male and female,
with offerings, and having elaborate headdresses. Her hair is done
up in a very elaborate style, with a profusion of pearls over the
forehead. This union of Siva and Parvati in a single body per-
sonifies the principle of life and production in its double aspect—the
active principle under the name of Purusha, and the female or
passive under that of Prakrit!2 On the male side the figure of
Arddhanarinateswara is usually painted dark blue or black, and
vermilion or orange on the left or female side, but sometimes the
colours are white (Siva's proper colour) and yellow.
The roof is divided by imitation beams into five compartments. In
the central one is a figure of the serpent Sesha very similar to that
over the antechamber in the great temple at Pattadkal.3 The head
and bust are well formed, and project boldly from the centre of the
coil. In a compartment to the right, on a cloud or boss 2 feet 6
mches in diameter, are a male and female well cut, the male (Yahsha)
^ith a sword, and the female (Apsaras) drawing forward a veil that
floats behind her head. In the corresponding compartment on the
°ther side are two rather smaller figures; and in the end panels are
lotuses.
The entrance to the hall itself, as in the two already described,
differs from what we found in the Buddhist cave-temples. The
front wall of the Vihara with its small windows and doors admitted
100 kittle light; and so here, while retaining the verandah in front
1 Rajendraia, Mitra's Antiquities of Orissa, vol. i. p. 98, and Plate XXVII., Fig.
• -It is to be regretted that we have no descriptive catalogue of female ornaments
"^ in India.
embodies the central idea or nature-worship, and occurred to the early Greeks,
'e see from the old Orphic hymn preserved by Stobasus, beginning
Zeus apa-vj}/ yevero, Zev: au.fiporaq eirXero uvufij.
" Zeus was a male, Zeus became a deathless damsel."
obams, Echg. Phys., ed. Heeren, vol. i. p. 42 ; conf. Muir, Orig. Sansk. Texts,
;'-PP. 9, 36 ; vol. iv. p. 331; and vol. v. p. 369.
also re6 • ArcL RePort> Plate XX-> ¥iS- 4> and Plate XL-> FiS- 5- TWs one is
Presented on the cover of Mr. Fergusson's Tree and Serpent Worship.