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Moti Bazar, and there is much vague talk of coins and solid bars of 

 silver having been discovered there in former years. It is bounded on one 

 side by a deep ravine, which I am now filling up in order to convert the 

 entire area into a public garden, which will be called the Moti Bagh, there- 

 by perpetuating the old tradition. 



Most natives who have seen the flasks think they were meant to 

 hold either gunpowder or oil, which is what the shape suggests ; but the 

 material, on account of its weight, seems unsuitable for such a purpose, 

 if the flask was to be carried about on the person, while the pointed bottom 

 makes it awkward for storing. The idea has also been hazarded that they 

 were meant to be filled with gunpowder and then exploded as a kind of 

 fire-works ; but, if* this were their object, there would scarcely have been 

 so much trouble spent on their ornamentation. A third theory, which has 

 found much favour on the spot, but which at first I was inclined to reject 

 as altogether untenable, is that they were intended to form a balustrade for 

 a balcony or the roof of a house. Perhaps after all this is not so very far 

 wrong ; being found at the same level as the Buddha and the bricks and also 

 a seal apparently of the 5th century A. D., an impression of which will be 

 exhibited at the next meeting of the Society, the presumption is that they 

 are of about the same date, and they may be the finials of miniature 

 Buddhist stupas. 



A specimen of the bricks, of which upwards of a thousand have 

 been found, is sent also with the vases. 



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The following additions have been made to the Library since the meet- 

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