The Development of Hindu Iconography c12.6

c12.6

Saletore attempted to identify the figure as Agni, in *New Review*, 55, X, 1939; but his grounds of objection to Marshall's view were refuted by Moraes in a subsequent issue of the same journal. In one of the issues of J.R.A.S.B., the problem of the identity of the figure has been thoroughly discussed from the ethnological point of view by A. Aiyappan who has fully endorsed Marshall's identification (Letters, Vol. V, pp. 401-06).