1889.] Address. 71 



in the Central Provinces — lias hitherto been discovered. The date on 

 this epigraph is unfortunately so injured that it is doubtful if it can be 

 fully read. Its discovery so far from Eran adds to its importance. 

 The characters are distinctly of the later Gupta type, about A. D. 500. 



The last report of the Lucknow Museum contains a list of a con- 

 siderable number of interesting additions to the Archaaological collec- 

 tions, including a number of Inscriptions, several of which have been 

 published in our Journal, and the remainder will appear in forthcoming 

 numbers of the JEpigraphia Indica. 



The Kudarkot Inscription of Takshadatta, which was found, in 1875, 

 at Kudarkot, in the Etawah District, and is now in the Lucknow 

 Museum, has been published by Dr. Fiihrer in Part I. of our Journal 

 for 1888. 



Dr. A. F. Rudolf Hoernle is preparing for publication " a new 

 copper-plate grant of Govinda Chandra Devaof Kanauj, dated in Sana vat 

 1188." The plate was found in the debris of a fallen high bank of the 

 Jamuna river, close to the inhabited site of the village of Ren, not far 

 from the village and police station of Lalauti in the Fathpur District. 

 This new grant exhibits some curious new readings, not occurring in 

 any of the jDreviously found grants of the same king; but it is especially 

 noteworthy on account of its date in Sam vat 1188, which is given both 

 in words and figures, and is important because it proves that Govinda 

 Chandra was still reigning in the year 1131 A. D., his latest date, 

 hitherto ascertained, being the year 1128 A. D. (or Samvat 1185). The 

 village to which the grant refers is Dosahali. 



Archceological Survey, Bengal. — Mr. J. D. M. Beglar, the ArchaBolo- 

 gical Surveyor, and his assistant, Mr. Garrick, have been employed during 

 the last season at the Adina Masjid at Panduah and at Rohtasgarh. A 

 number of di'awings have been made at both places during the last three 

 years. 



Archceological Survey, Western India. — During the past year the 

 attention of this Survey, under Mr. H. Cousens, has been engaged prin- 

 cipally with the old city of Bijapur and its remains, which lie spread 

 out on the plains of the Dekhan in a series of ruins of palaces, tombs, 

 mosques, serais, tanks, fortifications and gardens, overrun with, jungles 

 of prickly pear, and the city itself encompassed by six and a half miles 

 of cxmmbling walls. 



Up to the present 123 sheets of drawings have been made, illu- 

 strating the style of architecture practised here, with abundance of 

 details of mouldings, ornaments &c. ; 65 photographs have been taken, 

 and 130 facsimile impressions have been made of Persian, Arabic, 

 Devanagari and Kanarese inscriptions. The bulk of these inscriptions 



