| In one of these
niches we find a fat female squatting on the ground, holding a piece of cloth over her
head, while a female stands to her left with her hand clasped in adoration. The second
specimen of the same type contains the figure of a goddess holding a lyre in her hands,
evidently Sarasvati, the goddess of learning. Another
slab bears on it a conventional representation of a Chaitya-window pattern, so common in
the temples of Central India, especially those in the Rewa, State and at Khajuraho. The
interior of the sunken panels is entirely covered with geometrical patterns with a half
rosette in the centre. The second group of sculptures at Tezpur belongs to a temple
erected in the twelfth century A.D. if not later.
The size of the stones indicates that the temple was very
large in size and provided with a very tall spire. There are two specimens in the public
park at Tezpur, which appear to belong to another temple of some later date. One of these
is a high door-jamb and a second a slab bearing three sunken panels occupied by very crude
human or divine figures. |
