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north face, which has been polished, bears the inscription of Asoka's 

 edicts. 



The local edicts here are identical with those at Jaugada, the city 

 named being Tosali..: This is considered *the same as Bosara, on the 

 Dosaron river. 



57. Between Dhauli and Khandagiri I had twice to pass through 

 Bhuvaneswar, I could not help noticing the extreme beauty of some 

 of these ancient temples. Artistic surprises met one everywhere. 

 Naturally, one wonders when he mee^s grouped together in this remote 

 corner of India, objects of artistic or religious significance peculiar to 

 Rome and Greece, Phoenicia and Egypt. Ganesa has fruit offerings 

 placed before him on a Delphic tripod ; long gaunt figures adorn the 

 great temple, which might have been studied on Cleopatra's Needle ; 

 children drawn with a grace, and figured with a freedom which Albani 

 might have envied ; statuettes and figures, grouped and singly, which 

 disclose a grace one would hardly associate with Indian sculpture — all 

 the work of the past ! 



58. Besides the great temple I would name as deserving protec- 

 tive care — 



the Muhtekvara and Parasuramesivara^ 

 the BraJimanesivara and Bhaskares'wara, 

 the Baital Deul and the Baj-Bdni temples. 



Each of these has structural and archaeological peculiarities of its 

 own. The first three in this list have been the models for the hundreds 

 of temples which have made Bhuvaneswar peculiarly the city of 

 temples. 



I returned to Calcutta through Cuttack and via Chandbally, arriv- 

 ing here on the 4th of June. 



A cordial vote of thanks was proposed by Dr. G. A. Grierson to tbe 

 Government of Bengal for the interest taken in the matter of Asoka 

 Inscriptions in India, which was carried by acclamation. 



The Philological Secretary circulated the following table of com- 

 parison of selected words and numerals in several Assam languages 

 forwarded by Mr. S. E. Peal of Sibsagar. 



