258 Eajendraltila Mitra — Bcsearchcs at Buddha Oayd. [Dec. 



The genealogy o£ the donor begins with Goj)ala, the same whose name 

 occurs in the Monghyr plate translated by Wilkins (Asiatic Researches vol. I. 

 p. 123.) He had two sons, Dharmapala and Vakpala, who successively 

 succeeded him. The last appears under the name of Devapala in Wilkins' 

 plate. His sons were Devapala and Jayapala who seem to have reigned 

 one after another. The son of the last was Vigrahapala, who married 

 Sujja, a daughter of the Haihaya race, by whom he begat Narayanapala. 

 A transcript and a translation of the document will be published in the 

 next number of the Journal. 



Dr. Rajendealala Mitea also submitted three large bricks brought 

 by him from one of the arches of the great Temple at Buddha Gaya. Two 

 of them were shaped like voussoirs, having the upper side longer than the 

 lower, and the sides curved to correspond with the curve of the arch. The 

 upper side measured 16 inches and the lower 15 inches, the breadth being 9 

 inches. The third was a perfect parallelogram, 15 X 9. In presenting them 

 he gave a short account of a tour he had recently made in the Gaya district 

 in search of antiquities, and of his researches at Buddha Gaya. He said 

 that at the beginning of the year the king of Burmah had deputed two 

 persons to repair the Buddhist temple at Buddha Gaya, and these persons 

 had for some time carried on their work, when in June the circumstance 

 was brought to the notice- of Government, and he was requested to go to 

 Buddha Gaya, and report to Government as to what should be permitted in 

 the way of repairs, so as not to mask or modernise the old monument. 

 When Dr. Mitra came to the place in September last, he found the Bur- 

 mese gentlemen had already cleared an area of about 250 x 230 feet 

 around the great temple, dug out the foundations of the surrounding build- 

 ings for bricks, levelled the ground with rubbish, raising thereby the level 

 by nearly five feet, removed the old granite pavement, reset it on the higher 

 level, demolished the pavilion of the Buddhapad, which had stood in front 

 of the temple, built a new retaining wall to ithe west of the platform round 

 the sacred Bo Tree, and enclosed the cleared area by a new wall. They had 

 also destroyed the stucco ornaments and mouldings in the interior of the 

 sanctuary and covered the walls with plain chunam plaster. Under the 

 circumstances Dr. Mitra could not trace the locale of the several buildings 

 which Hiouen-Thsang had described as standing round the temple. By a 

 careful study of the mouldings still existing on the exterior of the temple 

 he had prepared restored drawings of the southern and the eastern facades 

 of the temple, and suggested to Government that the repairs may be permit- 

 ted according to the drawings. The drawings were exhibited to the meet- 

 ing as also a large collection of sketches of the various objects of antiqua- 

 rian interest which he had met with in course of his tour. He also 

 amiounced that he had collected 85 pieces of sculptured stones at Buddha 



