1890.] Address. 73 



Deogarh on the Betwa, iu the Lalitpur district, of the Gupta temple in 

 the plain below the fort, and the extensive group of Jaiua temples inside 

 the deserted fort. 



Since October 3889, the Architectural section has been at Fathpiir 

 Sikri, and has at present fully illustrated the Panch Mahal, Mirijam's 

 Kothi, and the Diwau-i-Kbas. 



Dr. Fiihrer, after having closed in the middle of February 1889, 

 his excavations at Mathura, which yielded, amongst other valuable 

 relics, some very important Jaina inscriptions of the Indo- Scythian 

 period, joined the Architectural section and visited the Lalitpur Dis- 

 trict. A careful search along the banks of the Betwa at Deogarh, brought 

 to light several Gupta rock-inscriptions, hithei-to unknown. 



In the beginning of November, he started on a tour through the 

 Farrukhabad, Mainpuri, Agra and Mathura districts, and is at pre- 

 sent engaged in a complete excavation of the Kankali Tila at Mathura. 

 To the east of the Svetambara temple of the fii-st century, whose 

 foundations were disclosed last year. Dr. Fiihrer unearthed a well- 

 preserved brick stupa of 18f feet diameter, some 25 feet below the pre- 

 sent surface of the soil. This stupa — it appears fi'om an inscription 

 found on the spot — is the relic stupa which was standing inside the 

 Upagupta monastery, mentioned by Hiuen Tsiang. 



Vol. I of the Reports of the Arcbseological Surveys in the N. "W. P. 

 and Oudh. — " The Sharqi Architecture of Jaunpur," already noticed, 

 was issued in August last; Vol.11. — "The Monumental Antiquities 

 and Inscriptions in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh," will be 

 published in March next ; Vol. III. — " The Chandella Architecture of 

 Bandelkhand," is in the press. 



Burma. — Dr. Forchhammer has given an account, in Trilhner's 

 Record, of his exploration of the Ruins of Pagan, in Burma, in the cold 

 season of 1888-89. One inscription he found, bore the date Sakkaraj 560 

 (A. D. 1188), but he has also found older records. He has identified 

 the caves and temples in which the chapter of five priests resided on 

 returning from their ten years' visit to Ceylon (A. D. 1171). He pre- 

 pared a map of the ruins on the scale of 12 inches to a mile, including 

 the whole of Old Pagan, and considerably more than Major Hobday's 

 map. 



Epigraphy. 



Parts III and IV of Dr. Burgess' new publication EpigrapMa Indica 

 have appeared. 



In part III, the two Prasastis of Baijnath, by Dr. Btihler, are con- 

 cluded, and there are two other papers by the same author, viz. ; " The 



