PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For June, 1874. 



The monthly general meeting of the Society was held on Wednesday, 

 the 3rd instant, at 9 P. M. 



Col. H. Hyde, R. E., President, in the chair. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following presentations were laid on the table — ^ 



1. From Colonel Mowbray Thomson, a Burmese map of the Manipur 

 and Kubbo Valleys, printed on cloth. 



2. From E. T. Atkinson, Esq., a set of photographs of the remains 

 existing at Garhwa near Sheorajpur in the Allahabad district. 



The following memorandum accompanied the donation — 

 The photographs sent herewith represent the sculptures recently disco- 

 vered at Garhwa near Sheorajpur in Parganah Barah of Allahabad. The 

 greater portion were, until recently, covered over with clay and the debris of 

 the temple shown in plate 1. This temjDle is situated within a fort of which 

 an exterior view is given in plate 18. The site is a depression amongst 

 the low scattered spurs of the Kaimur hills, which here approach the Jumna, 

 and until a few years ago was surrounded by a thick belt of jungle. On 

 the north and west of the fort there are fine tanks and on the brink of the 

 former, the remains of a ghat of cut stone and in the neighbouring jungles 

 cut stones which appear to have formed parts of some building. The fort 

 itself is of an irregular four-sided form built on a raised platform to which 

 access is obtained by a small doorway and on the west by a small postern 

 gate. Within is an inner fort having only one entrance and originally wall- 

 ed off" from the outer enclosure. Some of the pillars forming the inner square 

 of this enclosure are still standing and show a cell -like arrangement resem- 

 bling a modern Sarai. They are of various devices from plain voluted shafts 



