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whether this was so, or whether they had been from a stupa on the spot, 

 Mr. Rea made a careful examination of the ground and found a large 

 brick stupa in situ. Some preliminary digging was done and a few 

 small marble sculptures found. The principal point of interest, how- 

 ever, was found when a shaft sunk in the centre revealed not a relic 

 casket but a large swastika formed of large bricks. In a neighbour- 

 ing mound a smaller stupa platform with inner concentric circle and 

 radiating walls, all in the form of a chakra, was found. These may 

 have had some symbolical significance. 



At Kanuparti a number of white marble slabs and columns were 

 seen, which had been dug by the villagers from surrounding mounds. 

 Some exploratory digging was done here and a white marble column 

 found. 



At Motupalle over 400 coins were found by searching in the mounds 

 which mark the ancient site. 



The season's work was concluded at Amaravati, where some very 

 valuable slabs and other sculptures were unearthed from near the stupa. 

 The principal are : — A large stupa slab with carvings so minute as to 

 resemble work in ivory. It shows a stupa with all accessory details ; 

 another was a rail panel with figure groups on both sides, over 6 feet 

 long. A number of other large panels, all complete, were found. 

 They include over a dozen inscriptions in Pali. Some exploration in the 

 neighbouring Kuchidibba revealed a number of white marble Buddhist 

 sculptures, and some Hindu images cut out of Buddhist piers. 



The present season's work is being again devoted to the Kistna and 

 adjoining districts. Some work has been done in Nellore, amongst which 

 is the discovery of some ancient remains at Juvuladinna. Excavations 

 have been conducted at the Bogandanidibba (JSTo. 1 Stupa) at Pedda 

 Ganjam, discovered last season, and Mr. Rea writes that, though the 

 work had only proceeded for a few days, five large slabs of sculptured 

 white marble had already been found standing erect around the drum of 

 the stupa. The digging may be expected to reveal other valuable relics. 

 A third stupa has also just been discovered in the neighbourhood : it is 

 small and its chief interest is that it has the same symbolical swastika in 

 the centre as has the large No. 1 Stupa. These discoveries are interest- 

 ing as showing extensive Buddhist remains at a place where they had 

 been unexpected. 



Dr. Burgess has informed me that Mr. Rea has quite recently made 

 a great discovery, a veritable Buddhist Chaitya of early date, brick 

 with marble pillars, and used as a Hindu temple, at Chezarla in the 

 Kistna district. 



In a paper on " Some Prehistoric Burial-places in Southern India " 



