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 "birth under the tree Sala. It is much more probable that it was intended to represent the guardian spirit of a Yakshini, the females of one of their semi-divine races, to which the nearest approach in Western thought is the fairy and gnome people. . . . This pillar is now in the Indian Museum at Calcutta. Villagers had already carried off the greater part of the stone and bricks with which to make cottages when the monument was first brought to Western notice. Only about half of the original eighty pillars and about a third of the cross-bars were recovered."

VIII. From the Temple of Surya—

"One of the groups illustrating variant positions to be assumed in the sexual act. (See Chapter 6 of Part II.)"