70 Address. [Feb 



larger volume on the antiquities of Anhilwada, Siddhpur, and other 

 places in His Highness' dominions is in an advanced state of preparation. 



Archaeological Surveys. — During the year vigorous progress has 

 been made in the Archaaological Surveys in various parts of India, and 

 in the publication of the work of previous years. I am indebted to 

 Dr. Burgess, C. I. E., the Director General, and his assistants for very 

 interesting accounts of their labours, from which I can only give brief 

 extracts. 



Dr. Burgess recently made a tour in Yusufzai and has made a 

 geographical identification of some interest, viz., that Tarili, in the hills 

 to the N". W. of Shahbazgarhi, is the ancient Dhalila, the capital of 

 Udyana. 



Inscriptions. — During the camping season 1887-88, Dr. E. Hultzsch 

 copied 124 inscriptions at Salem, Trichinopoly, Tanjoi^e and Chodam- 

 baram. Among these, the large and numerous inscriptions of the 

 Tanjore temple prove most interesting. According to one of them the 

 temple was built by the Chola king Rajaraja-deva, and according to two 

 others its enclosure was constructed by the commander of his army. 

 A comparison of the Chelliir grant of the Eastern Chalukya king Vira 

 Ckoda with a number of unpublished Chola inscriptions has enabled 

 Dr. Hultzsch to settle with some probability the date of Rajaraja-deva 

 and of his son and successor Rajendra-Chola-deva. The latter was an 

 antagonist of the western Chalukya king Jayasimha III. (about S'aka 

 940 to 964), and the former seems to have fought with the Western 

 Chalukya Satyasraya II. (S'aka 919 to about 930). The Tanjore inscrip- 

 tions contain long lists of the countries conquered by Rajaraja-deva and 

 Rajendra-Chola-deva, most of which can still be identified. As the 

 epoch of these two reigns is now fixed within narrow limits, the approxi- 

 mate dates of a number of earlier Chola kings can be determined with 

 the help of the large Leyden grant of Rajaraja-deva. Dr. Hultzsck's 

 first volume of South Indian inscriptions, which contains the materials 

 collected in 1886-87, is now in the press. The present season's work 

 was commenced at Chitradurga, where he took impressions of four- 

 teen Kanarese inscriptions. From there he went to Hampi, the old 

 Vijayanagar, where he has done much work ; Tirupati, will next be 

 visited. Dr. Hultzsch has also contributed translations of a Rashtrakuta 

 and a Valabhi copperplate grant and other papers to the JEpigraphialndica. 



Mr. O'Dwyer has sent to the Lahore Museum a very interesting 

 inscription from the • Salt range. It is of the time of the "Maharaja 

 Toramana Shah," at the end of the fifth century (in 490 — 500 A. D.), 

 and records certain endowments to a Buddhist monastery. Coins of 

 Toramana are known, but only one stone inscription — on a Boar at Eran, 



