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More tears came to his eyes and I thought he was putting on Weddings a begging show to get more money. Not at all. He was only telling us how all his family were dead and this was his last, his only grandchild and wouldn't we please take for him a picture of himself with her. He was a sweet old man and the whole scene was very affecting. I am sure there was a lot of solemn and sweet ritual to the little ceremony that we didn't see. This was only the affiancing. By a recent law she cannot be married until she is sixteen.
We went on until we came to a hill that rested on the plain like a huge boukier. We had to be carried up it, swung on the shoulders of four bearers in a sort of wooden cradle. It was a fearful contraption and I did pity the poor bearers puffing and sweating in the full heat of the hot afternoon. A tiny tot of a boy came along with them and gave them a hand, pushing mightily with cheery 'Hump-hahY. The bearers put down the cradle every now and then and mopped The Jain their brows and smiled at me. Statue As you approach the top of the hill you see a great stone head and shoulders against the sky above a temple wall. It is a colossal statue, the biggest stone figure in the world carved out of a single block of granite. Wrought with utmost simplicity, there is yet such a feeling of the texture of flesh about it that you wonder it can be stone. Its date is a.d. 983, and yet it is as fresh and perfect both in conception and execution as
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[facing GOMATA SRAVANA BELGOLA. COLOSSAL JAIN STATUE, CARVED OUT OF A SINGLE BLOCK OF GRANITE. A.D. 983