History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v2.c46.66

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with water passing through a piece of cloth, the figure of an emaciated ascetic in trance with a plaited turban on is very significant; women have been represented as kneeling before him and the musicians as playing on tomtoms. The third figure represents a disciple offering a seat to an ascetic *guru*. The fourth is the repetition of the first, the fifth one is a devotee pouring water on a *Liṅgam* from a pot; another devotee is bringing two pots of water; the sixth one is an unimportant figure; the seventh one, that of a sage in the act of writing while two of his disciples are standing with folded hands; the eighth one is that of a man bathing a *Siva Liṅgam* with water from a rinsed cloth. The ninth one represents the worship of *Siva*; one of the figures here is mutilated. The tenth scene represents a *guru* reading from a book supported on a trestle, and turbaned disciples are listening; the eleventh one is a *guru* discoursing to turbaned disciples, while another disciple is reading apart.¹