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of about 30 ft. The tunnel is formed of huge pieces of wok 
eaning on one another, thus forming a sort of archway 4 ft. 
height at the entrance, gradually widening in alattestanter: 
heard a curious story about tank from a guard of th 
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the tank was covered with a huge pacer of stone which was 
raised by order and in the presence of Mr. F. E. Cockshott, the 
Engineer-in-charge of the new line, and inside was found a skeleton 
more than 6 ft. in length. Where the a and the covering 
stone is now I could not ascertain. Was this a Sarcophagus ? 
On a small boulder along one of the walls of the cave are some 
Buddhist sculptures, a headless statue of Buddha about 8’ in 
height, es ro of a crowned Buddha in the Bhumisparsa Mudra 
1’-4” in height and a votive stupa with panels containing a 
Buddha. on each of its four faces abont 2 ft. in height, all 
uninseribed. The track to the top eats from the platfrom 
Southern being t e lowest of the three. On the top of the 
highest peak cn is a piece of level ground about 20 ft. ae 
on which there lie, side by side, two shrines each five feet 
in dimension. The shrines are made of hu uge ancient tsticke, 
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stone. The western shrine contains a slab which is evidently 
modern judging from the clumsiness of the sculpture of the floral 
ornamentation around the footprint and the unnaturalness of 
the eastern shrine are four as stupas. The s in this 
shrine contains two lines of inscriptions along the two sides of 
the slab in —, Kutila ee a such as those which occur in 
the Bodh a inscriptions of Mahandman. One of these lines 
is the usual Baddhist sinks “'¥e sera hetu prabhava,” ete,— 
the “hetu prabhava” is quite distinct in my impression. The 
other line most probably contains a Y datedtiry inscription as 
