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According to the Brihatsamhita of Varahmihira, Revanta should be depicted as ‘riding on horse-back and accompanied by a party engaged in the sport of hunting. In December, 2016, during an exploratory field trip at Rajauna (Chowki) in Lakhisarai, I had also noticed a similar depiction of Revanta in a hunting scene sculpted on a stone slab, lying below a tree. At Jahngira, even as the sculpture has highly weathered away, the essential details nevertheless remain. Sitting astride on horseback, Revanta is shown wearing top boots and a conical head dress, in the company of a hunting party. Unlike some other depictions12, which include an archer shooting at a boar, here, is represented an attendant behind, seemingly carrying the body of the dead animal on his head, thereby indicating a post-hunt scene. S. Sahai on basis of the palaeographic evidence, placed it in the Gupta period, thereby identifying it as the earliest known representation of the deity. Asher, however, placed it in the 7th century A.D.
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