20 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (January, 1909. 
Sanskrit ; besides throwing a sidelight on the method of archi 
tecture or the skill of the masons in those far-away days of 
antiquity. 
One column! of the long destroyed building, which stands 
close to the Court, is particularly noticeable: on a broad side 
of this are carved the figures of some of the earlier avatars of 
sculptor has shown a bit of his wit in representing his carved 
deer as scratching its nose with the hoof of one of its hind 
of workmanship of so old a time are still spared to us. But 
been kept is highly objectionable : they have been left quite 
exposed to the destructive elements in Nature—sunshine, wind 
and rains. Already the carvings on the column referred to have 
become disfigured, and a few years after the figures will be 
deciphered this inscription, obtaining, I believe, the name of the king and 
the date.—{ Lt.-Col. P. R. Gurdon, Honorary Director of Ethnography, 
Assam. | 
1 Vide Photograph. 
