Mediaeval Temples of the Dakhan c7.s3.3

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very important relics considered to be nothing less than fragments of Buddha's begging bowl.¹ The base of another *stupa* was subsequently discovered, together with the empty relic casket, which is now in the Museum of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.² Built partly on this mound, its foundations cutting through it, had been a Hindu temple, probably Śaiva, since, among the sculptures scattered about, was a fragment of a huge linga. The sculptures lying about around the mound, in an adjacent garden, at the temple on the west bank of the Rāmakunda, on the east bank of the great Gās talāv, and on the west bank of the Nirmal tank were probably intended for this temple which appears to have been left unfinished. The great figure of Brāhmādeva, at the temple on the west bank of the Rāmakunda, is an unfinished work, it being left in the rough, and so is one of the images on the bank of the Nirmal tank, which is merely blocked out and is lying where the masons left it. (Plate XIV.)