The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c16.88

v2.c16.88

**Jaya-vijaya Caves** :—To the left of the last named group, there is a suite of two rooms with a corridor in front. (Plate I, D). This my guide designated Hamśapur, but some of his companions called it Jayā-vijayā. The porch is 8 feet by 3 feet, and the corridor 13 by 6 feet. The inner edge of the latter has a raised plinth on three sides, and behind it are the two rooms, one 7ft. 6" x 6 ft. 6" and the other 6 ft. 6" x 6 feet The dimensions are average, as the rooms are not exact parallelograms. The doors (one to each room) are of the usual size and style, framed with side pilasters and arched bands, and having a frieze of the true Buddhist type. The last comprises three compartments with two intervening archways. The archways are exact counterparts of similar structures in the Queen's Palace and the Gaṇeśa caves, flanked with flat pilasters with lion capitals. The base of the frieze is formed of a line of Buddhist rails. The principal subject of the frize occurs in its central compartment, a "*bo tree*" surrounded by a fence, exactly like what may be seen in the bas-reliefs of Sāñchī and Amarāvatī (Plate XIX). On the two sides of the tree are two male figures, the one on the left standing with folded hands in deep devotion,—the other on the right holding, with one hand, a bit of cloth tied to the tree, and a sprig of the tree in the other. Besides the men, are two elderly ladies bringing trays of offerings. The scroll-work on the semi-circular bands over the doorways are, as elsewhere, dissimilar, and beyond them, on the outer piers, are two burly figures in turbans, advancing with trays of offerings exactly like those noticed in the Queen’s Palace and the Gaṇeśa frieze. Flanking the facade are two alto-rilievo figures, a man and a woman, each six feet high, wearing a conical cap, and a heavy chignon. The man is dressed in *dhuti* and *cādar*, and the woman stands in a modest graceful attitude in her *sāri*.