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distinctly unparallel between Buddhist, Hindu and Jaina images. While the Buddhist centres of Baudh and Udaygiri of the Cuttack district and Khiching flourished, plastic art was yet in its nascent stage in the great Hindu centre of Bhuvaneśvara. Khiching was only a minor centre of Buddhism, as only one Buddhist temple and a few images, decidedly Buddhist, have been discovered there. That the art and architecture of Khiching was strongly influenced by the contiguous province of south-western Bengal has already been noticed by Chanda.