Mediaeval Temples of the Dakhan c9.s3.18

c9.s3.18

These last two shrines appear to have stood upon the edge of a large masonry tank, and, at a distance of seventy to eighty yards to the north-west of them, is a length of about ten yards of old masonry steps of the tank still remaining. Down below these temples, in what was the bed of the tank, was a mutilated boar similar to that at Balsāne, but it has only four small figures upon it—two forward and two aft. A large figure, however, stands beside the left shoulder of the boar with the right arm turned upward toward its snout which has been mutilated. This is, of course, a representation of the boar *avatāra* of Vishṇu, which, on a colossal scale, is seen at Erān in the Central Provinces.