Studies in Indian Art c13.s2.16

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It may also be noted that there are three Śiva-liṅgas from Khoh or from Uchahara area published so far. One is preserved in the Allahabad Museum and illustrated by S. C. Kala on Pl. XXA, B, of his book *Sculptures in the Allahabad Municipal Museum*, and described: "N. 164 Ekamukha Śiva Liṅga (6"×18") from Koh. Gupta Period. The lower part is roughly chiselled. Above it there is a plain cylinder which contains on one side the bust of Śiva". (P. 30). A second Śiva-liṅga similar in style to the above but with more elaborate ornamentation in the form of a broad torque round the neck, a *maṇimālā* near the line of hair on the forehead, and a *gavākṣa-cūḍāmaṇi* ornament on the hair above, really belonged to the Bhumara Śiva temple and was published by R. D. Banerji in his Memoir, *The Temple of Śiva at Bhumara* (1924; Pl. XV c). This was reproduced by A. K. Coomaraswamy in his article entitled "Indian Sculpture" published in the special art number (dated April 27, 1929) of the magazine *The Art News* (New York), fig. 16. Somehow Coomaraswamy mentioned it as a find from Khoh, and in borrowing the figure from Coomaraswamy the same mistake was committed by me in my *Gupta Art* (1947; fig. 5, pp. 6 and 35). The third example is the present one, which is decidedly the best specimen amongst all such examples. It was found somewhere in the Uchahara area and at present is in the collection of Smt. Pupul Jayakar, in New Delhi (*Fig. 136*).