The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c17.s1.228

v2.c17.s1.228

The smaller niches and recesses on the body of the temple and of the Porch have a great number of statues—three to five feet high—of men and women in different attitudes and rampant lions very much of the style of Bhuvaneśvara figures, but not quite so well carved. A few of the human figures are disgustingly obscene. Babu Brajakishore Ghosh, in his *History of Pooree* (p. 18), says, ‘the walls are covered with paintings of the most indelicate and obscene description’, but I saw none, and doubt very much if there ever were any paintings. It is very likely the author mistook carvings for paintings.