The Antiquities of Orissa v1.c8.37

v1.c8.37

**Kalasa :** The dome is surmounted successively by the *morā*, and the *kāngni*, as at Benares, and thereupon is placed the *kalaśa*, or jar, but its shape is remarkable,—quite different from that of the ordinary Indian pitcher of the present day. After a careful examination of several scores of specimens at Bhuvaneśvara, Puri and the Behar district, I can compare it with nothing so close as a Grecian *amphora*. The body, the neck, and the ornamentation of this vessel, appear to be pretty near copies of European models.