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the sounds so intimately conveyed by the contact of ear with harp; sounds

which accompany the low murmur of his voice, as he croons through his slightly

parted lips. His plump, round face, with heavy drooping eyelids and rather hooked

nose, has a short, horizontal red line painted on the cheek and the tilaka on his

forehead. On the lip is a small black moustache. His long, black hair is nearly

covered by an elaborate pagri of red cloth ornamented with strings of pearls. The

visible part of his body is either nude or clad in a close-fitting vest. The neck-band

may be a border to the vest or a golden carcanet. He wears an elaborate jewelled

armlet, bracelets, and ear-rings. A thin grey stole is caught over the bend of his

arm. The carefully drawn harp is yellow (gold).

Bal. 0200

The principal subject on this fragment shows a seated three-headed divinity

(trimiirti), with head inclined slightly downwards and turned to the right. The eyes

are heavy-lidded and dreamy, with iris and pupil a mere dot, and the outer angle

rather elongated. Between the upward sloping eyebrows a third eye is placed

vertically, and above the forehead is a white, human skull, behind which the black

hair rises in a top-knot. From a pearl-studded taenea, rippling tresses fall to the

shoulders. The moustache is represented by thin black lines extending well across

the cheeks. Grey and nude to the hips, the `leonine' body is adorned with carcanet,

armlets, and bangles, and a long yellow stole twines about shoulders and arms.

Round the hips is a dark red dhoti, rising in a high point at the centre. On each bare

thigh, lower leg, forearm, breast, and on either side of the navel is a pair of short,

black strokes.

Of the four arms, the front pair are posed very similarly to those of the

Teacher in M. III. 002, plate 1. The right holds a pomegranate against the breast,

and the left grasps a vajra, now perished. The other two uphold, to right, the

sun, and to left, the moon. The flesh-coloured, smiling, effeminate face to the

right has elongated eyes with dots for iris and pupil; black hair, dressed high and

crowned with a tiara supporting a large circular jewel. The other head, badly

defaced, had a red cap or hair; and the face was probably yellow and of demoniac

aspect.

There is no nimbus and the field of the vesica is grey-green, bordered with a red

inner band and an outer band of red-brown, both bands contoured with thin white

lines.

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