The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c18.108

v2.c18.108

[162] ‘About 16 feet beyond the gate, behind a narrow passage blocked up by brambles, there is a cell 9 feet square and as many feet deep. In this a large image of Buddha is placed in a sitting and meditating posture. It is 5 feet 6 inches long from waist to head. The face itself is 1 ft. 6 in. x 1 ft. 5 in., and the breast 3 feet 6 inches broad. It is made of three pieces of bluish chlorite. The head is formed of one piece, the neck down to the breast of another, and all below of a third’⁴⁰. A drawing of this Buddha is given in Plate LIX.