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are new and of considerable importance. Gropala's cave at Prabhasa, 

 on which Mr. Cockburn has given us a paper already published in our 

 Journal, was entered and surveyed, and all the inscriptions both inside 

 and outside copied by means of ink impressions. These include three 

 of the Indo-Skythian period, the oldest of which is dated Vikrama 

 samvat 10, which may be 47 B. C, or only a regnal date, and five 

 belong to the Gupta period. We may congratulate Dr. Eiihrer on 

 the success of his year's exploration. The draftsmen of the staff 

 also made careful drawings of the architectural and other objects of 

 interest at all the places visited during the tour. The report on the 

 previous season's work at Jaunpar and in the eastern districts of 

 the 'N. W. Provinces, with some important additions from the present 

 season's work, is nearly ready for publication and will be richly illus- 

 trated. Daring the present season, the architectural assistant and 

 draftsmen have been hitherto at Jaunpur, completing, in full detail, 

 the survey of the Sharqi remains there, before they are fui-ther injured 

 by unskilful ' restoration.' Dr. Fiihrer has meantime been engaged upon 

 a survey of the districts to the east of the Ganges and will, at a later 

 date, be joined by the architectural staff in E-ohilkhand. He has also 

 compiled a very valuable descriptive list of the antiquarian and 

 architectural remains in the N. W. Provinces and Oudh, which will be 

 published by the Local Government at an early date. It is drawn 

 up on the plan of the Bombay lists, but is fuller in details, and will 

 afford an admirable guide to the archaeology of the area with which it 

 deals. 



Dr. Burgess himself visited Kalsi in Dehra Diin, in the end of 

 October, and took a complete impression in duplicate of the Asoka in- 

 scription there, which it is expected from its clearness will leave little 

 to be desired by scholars. He also obtained from the Lakkha Mandal 

 temple, much further up the Jumna, two early inscriptions, one being 

 a record of a temple built by Isvara, a princess of the royal family of 

 Singhapura who had married a Chandragupta prince of Jalandhara. 

 It is not dated, but probably belonged to about 600 A. D., and gives a 

 vamsdvali of eleven generations of the Singhapura family. From 

 Shahbazgarhi, he has also obtained, through the Assistant Commissioner, 

 a new inscription in Baktrian-Pali, that may turn out to be the twelfth of 

 the Asoka edicts which was wanting in the great epigraph close by. It 

 has been sent to Professor Biihler to be edited. From the Lalitpur 

 district comes a long inscription, bearing the date 869 in some era, and 

 from near Mathura, one of Kanishka of which the date may be 85 A. D. 

 In last February, Dr. Burgess took impressions of all the inscriptions 

 in the Nagpur Museum which are being now edited by Dr. Kielhorn 



