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He is four-armed with his two lower hands held in <i>abhaya </i>and<i> varada</i> mudras. The two upper arms are raised to hold attributes which are now missing. According to the published drawing of this sculpture (Moor,1861) these were a noose held in the right hand of which one truncated end has survived in the palm of his hand and a trident in his left hand.He wears a <i>karanda mukata</i> tiered crown and he has a third eye and is bearded with a small upwards-curving moustache. He wears a lower garment pleated at the front and jewelley round his neck, wrists, ankles and right forearm. He no longer has a base but the drawing shows him originally sitting on a shallow domed base with a lotus petal mouldings round the rim. The elbows of the upper arms have soldered strengthening struts fixed to his hips. 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Sir Charles Wilkins,(1749-1836) was a founding member with William Jones of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. He trained as a printer and joined the East India Company as a writer arriving in India in 1770 where he gained the support of Warren Hastings, the Governor General, who encouraged him to further his linguistic studies in Sanskrit. This resulted among other publications on Sanskrit grammar and language in the first translation of the Bhagavad Gita (which he spelt as Bhagvat-Geeta) into English in 1785. He returned to England in 1786 and subsequently became the first Director and Librarian of the East India Company’s library at India House in 1800. His collection of zinc alloy deities which he had commissioned while in Benares (now Varanasi) was published in The Hindu Pantheon by Edward Moor in London in 1810. 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