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(March 14th), Virakali (March 15th), Ravatasara, Namgaja 
(March 16th), Manikatheri, Dotheri, BhavariyO Thera (March 
_ 17th); (7) Ranga Mahal (Dec. 5th-10th); (8) Dotheri (Dec. 
1lth-15th, 19th-22nd); (9) Kali Vanga (Dec. 23rd—24th) ; (10) 
Pili Vanga (Dec. 29th), Kali Vanga (Dec. 29th-31st), Baha- 
loliyo (Dec. 31st). 
The results of the exploration were remunerative. A large 
number of therts, or ancient mounds, were located along the 
dry bed of the Ghagghar in the northern part of the State, and - 
trial pits were sunk into those of them which appeared to be 
of particular importance. These small excavations, combined 
with superficial search, yielded an amount of inner antiquities 
—such as coins, beads, figurines, pieces of pottery, ete—which, 
though not exceedingly rich, was deemed to possess such 
interest as amply to reward the labour and cost involved in the 
excavations. But as this is not the place for dealing with finds 
of a purely archeological character, I am obliged to content 
myself with this cursory allusion to this subject, and pass on 
to other finds which come within the sphere of the Bardic and 
important devali epitaphs and very few possess an interest of 
one kind or another. In point of age, the inscriptions found 
dates of these inscriptions range from the year Samvat 1186 
(Ganero) to the year Samvat 1388 (Choti Ghantigala), but as 
regards their contents, very little is utilizable to-day, because 
owing to the poor quality of the stone and the secular action 
of the weather, the writing is so effaced that in many cases 
nothing more than the date and a few letters here and there 
ing from the Samvat-cen { 
1800, were discovered in the Pallivala villages, west of Gaja- 
néra, chiefly at Kolayata and Jhajjhia, but being of no histori- 
