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in relief. It is evidently only a portion of a frieze, made up of similar bricks, placed side by side. The two figures to the right are bearers carrying a litter, probably a palki, or other vehicle, as the pole is over the shoulders in the way palkies are carried at the present time; but the palki or whatever it may have been, must have been represented on a previous brick. In front of the first palki-bearer, is a boy carrying a serai, and holding up what may have been either a torch or a chauri, probably the former, the serai serving to carry the oil, and to the right of the figure is a soldier with a round shield and a short sword held against his left shoulder. These figures are dressed in short tunics with belts round their waists, and they have short drawers, in the case of the two palki-bearers reaching to the knees, and in the other two figures to the ankles. The tunics and trousers are represented as covered with fine vertical parallel ridges, except in the case of the arms, in which they are transverse. They wear high headdresses, and the only face that is perfect has whiskers, beard, and a heavy moustache, and is flat and broad. The feet of the bearers have shoes, but the other figures are bare-footed. I have not been able to trace the history of this specimen, neither can General Cunningham nor Dr. Mitra throw any light on it.

ADDENDA TO BUDDHIST SCULPTURES, &c.

APPENDIX A.

SULTANGANJ.

The ruins of this place, which is situated on the banks of the Ganges in the Bhagalpur District of Bengal, were first described by Dr. Mitra. He discovered the remains of a " large Buddhist monastery or vihāra, such as at one time existed at Sárnath, Sanchi, Buddha Gaya, Manikyálá and other places of note, and at its four corners had four chapels for the use of the resident monks." The chapel on the south-west yielded a number of broken terracotta and copper figures, and portions of various articles of domestic economy, a list of which accompanies Dr. Mitra's paper. But the most important discovery was a large copper figure of Buddha, over 6 feet in height,3 found by Mr. Harris.

In 1879, General Cunningham opened a mound close beside the ruin that had been described by Dr. Mitra, and it proved to be a stupa, the cupola of which "must have been not less than 90 feet in diameter, as the octagonal plinth on which it stood had a side of 39 feet, and a diameter of 94146 feet (sic). Near the bottom of this mass there was a small brick stūpa only 8 feet in diameter, standing in the midst of a square compartment, the intervening space being filled with earth. In this small stūpa there was a common round earthenware vessel, or ghárá, standing with the mouth upwards. In this were

1 Journ. As. Soc. Beng., Vol. XXXIII, pp. 361-374, plate.

2 It is not recorded by Dr. Mitra where the various objects discovered in

the excavations made by Mr. Harris have been deposited.

3 The large copper statue of Buddha was apparently sent to some Museum in Manchester, or in Birmingham.

Arch. Surv. Rep., Vols. X, p. 727, and XV, p. 28.

deposited the "Seven Precious Things" of the Buddhists, namely, 1, Gold; 2, Silver; 3, Crystal; 4, Sapphire; 5, Ruby; 6 Emerald; 7, Jacinth or Zircon."

"On removing the brick on which stood the earthen vessel, there was found a cavity, one-brick deep, 9 inches long and 6 inches broad, containing a piece of bone, 1 inch long by § inch broad, embedded in some fine red clay. This was only a few inches above the water level. Here then was the veritable relic for the enshrinement of which this great stūpa was erected. With it there was no writing or inscription of any kind. I turned therefore to the two little coins," found in the ghārā, "which were thickly coated with verdigris, and thus had consequently been taken for copper coins. On cleaning them, I found one to be a silver coin of Maha Kshatrapa Swâmi Rudra Sena, the son of M. Ksh. Satya, or Surya, Sena. The other was a coin of Chandra Gupta, Vikramaditya, or Chandra Gupta II." From these coins General Cunningham deduces the date of the stupa to have been about 250 A.D.

The following objects were presented by the Archeological Survey of India on the 30th July 1883, and are as follows:

In Cabinet No. 5, in Buddhistic series of Gupta gallery. Sj. 1-2.—A gold fleur de lis, measuring 0"-60 in length by 0".54 in breadth, about one-hundredth of an inch in thickness and 7 grains in weight; and a thin plate of gold weighing only 7 grains, and measuring 1"54 long and 0"-30 in breadth at the middle. It is abruptly narrowed at one end to 0.20 in breadth.

Sj. 3-5.-"The silver consisted of a thin plate, 24 inches long by 1 inch broad, weighing, with the chloride incrustation, 180 grains," but the silver received from the Archæological Survey is made up of 18 fragments of different sizes. There are also the two coins mentioned above; the first, Sj. 4, being a small coin of Maha Kshatrapa Swami Rudra Sena. It appears to be only two-thirds or so of a coin, as merely the face of the king remains the 2nd, Sj. 5, is perfect and the head of the king Chandra Gupta Vikramaditya is well delineated.

:

Sj. 6.-A piece of rock crystal, 0" 65 long by 0" 46 broad. Sj. 7.-An oval uncut sapphire, of a very pale colour, measuring 0" 40 x 0′′ 30 x 0" 17.

Sj. 8.-A ruby of a pale pink colour, uncut and nearly round, but flattened on one side. It measures 0"-27 x0" 26 × 0"-14. Sj. 9.-An emerald, opaque and full of flaws, and measuring 0"-27X0" 23x0"-17.

Sj. 10.-Three jacinths or zircons, one measuring 0715× 019x0"-9; another 0-17x0" 15 x 0" 7, and the third 0"-18 x 0.13×0":9.

Sj. 11.-A fragment 1"10x0"-65 × 0"35 of the solid outer portion of a long bone, probably human, and found in the cavity above mentioned, on the water level of the small stūpa; and doubtless the relic for the enshrinement of which the great stūpa was erected, as remarked by Cunningham.

Mathura,

In Cabinet No. 5.

Ma.-A relic casket of steatite, 3" high and 2"-25 in its greatest diameter, consisting of a lotus ornament on the rim above, and on the body of the casket. On the former, the petals are defined by parallel lines, whereas, on the latter, the petals are plain, and the interspaces between the tips are filled up with similar lines.

General Cunningham discovered this casket in one of the Chaubara mounds at a depth of 13 feet. The stupa, for such the mound proved to be, was 17' in diameter, bnt no trace of a relic-chamber was observed. "The casket was struck in the side by one of the workmen who picked up the lower half of it, whilst the lid was found amongst the earth collected in the basket ready to be drawn up. A careful and minute search was made for the contents of the casket but without success."2

Presented by the Archæological Survey of India, 11th August 1882.

1 Arch. Surv. Rep., Vol. III, p. 17. Pl. 11, fig. 4.
2 Op. cit., p. 17.

ADDENDUM TO BRAHMANICAL

SCULPTURES.

APPENDIX B.

BUNDI.

This place is situated in a gorge of the Pathar range of hills in Eastern Rajputana.

In Cabinet No. 2 of Brahmanical series of Gupta gallery.

Bi. 1.-A lattice of open carved work in yellowish marble of the Vindhyan series of rocks. It measures 14′′-75 × 10′′-75. The frame is 2"-30 broad and 0"-90 thick. Its inner border has a plain moulding. The framed portion consists of a series of nine obliquely placed zigzag bands crossed by another set at right angles, the two being represented tied together at the points where they cross one another. They thus define numerous open spaces quadrilobular in form with their maximum length placed transversely. The upper border forms a kind of sculptured arch surrounded by a floral scroll. An inscription in Hindi characters occurs on one surface of the frame above the arch. The letters are in blach basalt, and have been admirably cut and let into the marble.

The inscription on this and on the following lattice is the same, viz., Sang ūmaraitā kai Rājbūndī, i.e., according to Dr. Hornle, who has kindly examined these frames : "The Rajbundi (made) of ūmaraitā stone." He supposes Rajbundi to be the Royal palace at Bundi, which is ornamented with lattices, but what kind of stone the umaraitā is he does not know. Dr. Hoernle says "the inscription throws no light whatever on the antiquity of these two pieces" and that "the Hindi letters are extremely modern and might be of yesterday."

1 Journ. As. Soc. Beng., Vol. XX, p. 287.

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