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He is holding aloft in his right hand an axe, of which only the handle now remains. His left hand is also missing. He wears a crown made of rosettes, with  rosette earrings, armbands and a pendant rosette necklace. He also wears a garland round his neck. He is wearing an ankle-length <i>dhoti</i> simply pleated in front at the waist, with anklets below. 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The figure is No.405 in the India Museum Slip BooksSir Charles Wilkins,F.R.S. (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 <u>Bhagavad Gita</u> 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 <u>The Hindu Pantheon</u> by Edward Moor in London in 1810. 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