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quired for the rules will be given by this arrangment, the monthly 
meeting on the first Wednesday in February will be made the 
meeting for the discussion of the question. 
The following letter was read— 
From Capt. W. L. Samuetns, forwarding facsimiles of inscriptions, 
a plan, and a drawing of a rock cut temple at Harchoka, Chutia 
Nigptr. 
‘I send you by dak banghy a parcel containing facsimiles of 
some inscriptions which I found cut on the pillars of a rock-cut 
temple at Harchoka in the Chutia Nagpur Tributary Mahal of 
Chang Bhokar, and which I came across this last season in 
settling the frontier line between Rewah and Chutia Nagpur. 
‘One inscription (marked R) I got amongst some very interesting 
remains of rock-cut temples and monasteries near the village of 
Mara in Rewah. These temples were visited by a Capt. Blunt 
in 1795, and are mentioned by him in his “Narrative of a Route 
from Chunarghur to Yartnagoodum” published in 1801 in the 7th 
volume of the Asiatic Researches. On pages 73 and 74, he 
mentions having taken sketches of these temples with their mea- 
surements, which makes me anxious to know whether your Society 
is in possession of those sketches, and if so, whether I could be fa- 
voured with a view of them ; for my visit to the Mara temples, from 
press of work, was, I regret to say, a very hurried one. I was there- 
fore unable to make a plan of them as I should like to have done, 
if I had had the time. But if Capt. Blunt’s sketches are to the 
fore, I should be very much assisted in writing my report on these 
temples, if I had thése sketches to refer to. Capt. Blunt states that 
he wasunable to find any writing or inscription, and as far as 
the temples and monasteries go, I was similarly disappointed. But 
I doubt, if he noticed the remains of a stone aqueduct, as no men- 
tion is made of it in his narrative. It was in following up the 
remains and fragments of the aqueduct with a view to ascertain- 
ing from whence and for what distance the water had been con- 
veyed by this artificial channel that I came to a spring which 
issued from a rock in the side of a hill, and found the rock 
excavated so as to form a grotto of the following dimensions— 
length 16’ 4”; depth 6’; height 4... The roof is horizontal with 
