. The Indian empire: history, topography, geology, climate, population, chief cities and provinces; tributary and protected states; military power and resources; religion, education, crime; land tenures; staple products; government, finance, and commerce . 3 ^ 0 THE INDIAN EMPIRE ILLUSTRATED. 115 THE DUS OUTAR—ELLORA. The temple-cavern bearing this name occurs in the centre of the mountain-rangeof Ellora, and appears to have been devoted to the representation of the tenincarnations, or avatars, of Vishnu/ whose achievements are sculptured on thecompartments by which the walls of the tpmple are
. The Indian empire: history, topography, geology, climate, population, chief cities and provinces; tributary and protected states; military power and resources; religion, education, crime; land tenures; staple products; government, finance, and commerce . 3 ^ 0 THE INDIAN EMPIRE ILLUSTRATED. 115 THE DUS OUTAR—ELLORA. The temple-cavern bearing this name occurs in the centre of the mountain-rangeof Ellora, and appears to have been devoted to the representation of the tenincarnations, or avatars, of Vishnu/ whose achievements are sculptured on thecompartments by which the walls of the tpmple are adorned. The Dus Outar (tenavatars)—though it is evidently, from the multitude of its figures actively engagedin terrestrial aflPairs, a Brahminical temple—is distinguished from other excavations in therange, by having cells opening into its principal hall, resembling those which are foundin caves purely Boodhist. Figures in the attitudes assumed by Boodh, surmountthe capitals of the pillars in front, and various indications occur in every directionto render its positive character doubtful, particularly as the decorations of the cave arenot peculiar to it, inasmuch as each of the adjacent temples is equally supplied withdelineations of the a
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