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| Iti chaitya
site. No. 12 there are two brick shrines and in each there is a colossal stucco statue of
the Buddha in Bhumisparsa mudra. * To the east of chaitya site No. 14 is an inscribed
statue of the Buddha again in Bhumisparsa mudra and attended by several figures. The
pedestal gives the names of the female donor. Nearby there is another colossal image of
the Buddha in Dharma chakra mudra. Again, close by there is an image of Marichi, the
Buddhist goddess of dawn. Marichi has three faces of which that of a pig and there are
seven pigs represented on the pedestal. The Buddhist image has been adopted as a Hindu
deity by the villagers and is worshipped.It may be mentioned that a large number of images
have also been found in the neighboring villages of Bargoan, Begampur and Jagdishpur. |
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