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up in different parts of the central base as well as before the corner images, evidently deposited
by the same person, anxious to propitiate all the divinities. The variety of this collection vividly
reminded me of the wonderful display of rags that graces the approaches to the resting-place
of Imām Ja'far Sādiq, and swings from high staffs over the supposed tombs of other saints
throughout Turkestān. Islām has indeed little changed the popular type of ex-votos which
were in vogue during Buddhist times, and which in this case has provided for us a sample
collection of ancient fabrics of no small archaeological interest. Among the specimens carefully
described by Mr. Andrews in the list below, and partly reproduced in Plates LXXVI,
LXXVII ¹⁸, there may be mentioned the little pennons (E. i. 016, 017), made up of silk pieces
of different colours and qualities, several of them strongly ribbed. The heavy silk brocades
(E. i. 018, 019) show remarkable mastery in weaving technique and in the harmonious mixing
of colours. To do full justice to the latter in the reproduction could, owing to the number
and delicate blending of the different shades, have been attempted only at a prohibitive cost.
Examining in the original even so small a shred as E. i. 020, with a ground of deep gold
colour and a pattern in white, red-brown, deep blue, and green, some idea can be gained as
to the artistic richness of these garments. Loosely-woven silk fabrics are E. i. 021, 022, and
the muslin-like piece E. i. 024. Another silk of this kind (E. i. 027) shows a pattern in satin
stitch. Excellent workmanship is displayed by the finely-woven white cotton or linen, E. i. 023,
with its lozenge diaper pattern. In E. i. 026 we have a sample of plain cotton cloth dyed
dull violet-brown. Finally the peculiar technique of 'knot-dying', still largely practised in
North-western India, is illustrated by the piece of blue cotton cloth, E. i. 029, sewn into what
seems to have been a small bag, and ornamented by flower-like patterns executed in knot-work,
white on blue.

Section III.—THE RUINED FORT AND STŪPA OF THE ENDERE SITE

Excavation
of building
E. ii.
Immediately after the clearing of the temple had been completed on the morning of
February 23, I excavated the row of small rooms marked E. 11, situated to the north of
it, at a distance of about 50 ft. The walls here too were built of a timber framework with
plaster just as in the cella, but had decayed badly, as the cover of sand was only from 1 to 5 ft.
in height. On the north there adjoined a walled-in courtyard which seemed to have been used
once in part as a cattle-shed. In the easternmost room there was found a cavity constructed
in the floor adjoining the south wall, about 4 ft. long, 3 ft. broad, and 4 ft. deep. Its sides
were all carefully plastered. Its purpose could not be definitely established ; it might possibly
have served as a grain store. That in all probability this dwelling had been tenanted by a small
monastic establishment became evident by the finds in the room next to the west.

Fresco in
chapel E. ii.
This little apartment, measuring only 8 ft. by 4½ ft. (marked E. ii. in plan, Plate XXXVI),
had its narrow south wall decorated with an elaborate fresco painting, still retaining in part
its original vivid colours (see Plate X). Of the central figure, which was about life-size and
probably represented a Buddha or Bodhisattva, there remained only the feet and the lower
portion of the robe, since the wall had broken away above 4 ft. from the floor. The oval vesica
painted behind the figure showed small representations of seated Buddhas or saints, all painted

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