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hundreds of images. During January and February last, a Baddhist 

 stupa, situated in the forest near Junagadh, was opened by the Juna- 

 gadh authorities under the guidance of Mr. James Campbell, 0. S., and 

 the searchers were rewarded by the discovery, about the middle of the 

 mound, of the relic with its enclosing caskets of atone, copper, silver and 

 gold. The nature of the relic has not been decided — it is a small chip, 

 or flake, about f of an inch long by j inch broad, of some brown hard sub- 

 stance which closely resembles stone that has been under the action 

 of fire. No inscription or coin was found that might have thrown some 

 light on it ; but fragments of a Buddhist rail and umbrella in stone were 

 unearthed during the excavation. Mr. Cousens has favoured me with a 

 copy of the Report on this find, which, I hope, will be published in the 

 Joimial. A considerable number of drawings, photographs and facsimi- 

 les of inscriptions were made during the field season. 



The Guide-book to the Ruins of Bijipur, by Mr. Cousens, to which 

 reference was made last year, has been published and is a handsomely 

 got up little volume, which will be of great assistance to visitors to the 

 ruins and to archaeological students. 



The party is now in (rujarat visiting outlying parts of the Baroda 

 territory, in order to complete the material required for a second volume 

 on the antiquarian remains in H. H. the Gaikwads dominions. 



A volume on the Chalukyan remains in the Kanarese country is now 

 almost ready for the press, and the full accounts of Bijapur and Satrun- 

 jaya are to follow, they being now in hand. 



The Rev. J. E. Abbot has quite recently discovered twenty-three 

 ancient Buddhist Caves at Nadsur, eight miles to the north of Nenavali, 

 about 20 miles south of Khandalla, in the Konkan. These caves have 

 apparently never before been visited by any European and are unknown 

 to scholars. They are cut in a rocky scarp about 800 feet above the 

 villages of Nadsur and Thanal, facing the west, and are pi'obably as 

 old as the Christian era, though in a state of perfect preservation. 



ArcJiceological Survey, Southern India. During the last field sea- 

 son the party under Mr. A. Rea, after visiting Pulicat, Nellore, 

 and Juvaludinne, resumed excavation at the Franguladinne stupa, 

 near Pedda Ganjam, as noted last year. Proceeding thence, to Che- 

 zarla, some very important and interesting remains of the early Bud- 

 dhist period were discovered. These include some important inscrip- 

 tions on marble and a Buddhist structural chaitya, the largest and 

 most complete of the four yet found in India, of which three were 

 discovered by Mr. Rea. The temple is quite complete and is used for 

 worshijD by the Hindus. Some remains were inspected at Kamapalle 

 and some mounds at Panidem. At Garikipad Agraharam a mound was 



