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of Pre-Maurya days; at Madh near Mathura, the statues of 
Kaniska, Mataksama (a Kusana prince), Tiastenes and others ; 
at Parkham, near the same place, the statue of Ajatasatru, 
the fourth king of the Saisunaga dynasty ; at Pataliputra, the 
ash-funnels which remind us of the hundred-pillared pavilion 
Vasudeva ; at Nalanda, the old Baladitya monastery presided 
over by Silabhadra, where Hiuen-Tsang received his final 
saw Nalanda in 1908. It was a shapeless ruin, three 
stories high, with a footpath running along its base, and a few 
gigantic figures of Buddha at one end which each passer-by 
workmanship. The four-storied monastery, in which Hiuen- 
hese excavations have roused intense interest in the art 
and architecture of ancient India. But these are not the only 
of the jungles of Bundelkhund, 85 miles away from the nearest 
Railway Station, the temples of the Chandella rulers of the 
tion work of this Department. Wherever there have been ex- 
tensive excavations, Museums have been erected in which the 
minor antiquities obtained at the site have been properly 
arranged for a careful and artistic study. The Museums are 
a very noble work of this Department. 
There are Museums at Peshawar, Lahore, Taxila, Delhi, 
Mathura, Ajmere, Sarnath, Sahet Mahet, Lucknow, Patna 
Nalanda, Bombay, Madras, Calcutta. The success of the 
Archeological Survey of India has induced the Ruling Chiefs 
to open such Departments in their States. The most notable 
among these is the Archeological Department at Mysore 
recently ope 
Department, the first publication of which set the long-stand- 
ing controversy about the identity of the Asoka of the 
Buddhist scriptures and the Piyadasi of the inscriptions at 
