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 2 SIX SCULTURES FROM MAHOBA

latter part of the eleventh century and who built the Kirat Sagar lake, in the vicinity of which the sculptures were discovered. Unlike the black marble used in most of the sculptures from Mahoba, the stone used in this case is the buff-coloured sandstone, of slightly different shades, which comes from the Vindhyas, similar in appearance to the familiar variety from the quarries of Chunar, used by the Sārnāth sculptors, but in this case most probably coming from one of the isolated offshoots of the Vindhyas, so common in Bundel- khand. The stone is capable of receiving a fine polish, as may be seen from the statue of Siṅhanāda-Avalōkitēśvara.