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found there will find a borne in the Indian Museum. The suggestion of 

 Mr. E. Arnold that the present occupant of the Hindu temple at Cava 

 should be induced to give up his acquired right of occupancy, and that 

 the place so sacred in the annals of Buddhism should be handed over to 

 the care of Ceylon Buddhists, will doubtless receive consideration, but wo 

 should not forget in this connection that we have in Burma even a 

 greater number of Buddhist fellow-subjects who desire and deserve con- 

 sideration. 



Bombay. — In Western India, H. H. the Gaikwar procured a survey to 

 be made by the Archaeological Department of the ancient fort of Dubhoi, 

 the results of which will, it is believed, be published. The early mosque 

 at Bharoch, with its richly carved ceilings, torn from Jaina temples, 

 was also surveyed, and the latter half of the last season was devoted to a 

 careful delineation of the early Chalukyan temples in the Dharwar 

 district and on the borders of Mysore. These temples appear to re- 

 present a distinctly marked architectural style, and in their chronolo- 

 gical sequence can be clearly traced the development of that style from 

 the slightly modified Dravidian temples of the seventh and eighth cen- 

 turies to the fully developed and richly carved Chalukyan works of 

 four centuries later. The drawings prepared by the Survey will illus- 

 trate the richness of Hindu art in media? val times in a manner that 

 has never before been attempted. Numerous old inscriptions in the Kan- 

 arese character were also collected and submitted for decipherment. H. H. 

 the Gaikwar has asked for a party to examine the remains of the cele- 

 brated city of Anhillawada-Pattan, once the capital of the Solankhis, 

 and also the remains at Sidhapura and Mudhera. The same survey 

 party will visit other remains in Gujarat and the east of Kathiawar, 

 including the Jaina shrine of Satrunjaya. 



Madras. — In Southern India, the Survey, during last season, traversed 

 the country lying along the north-east frontier ol Mysore fromPennakonda 

 to the Tungabhadra, delineating numerous remains both of the Chalu- 

 kyan and Yijayanagar dynasties, and collecting facsimiles of stone and 

 copper-plate inscriptions. A copper- plate grant in old Prakrit, belonging 

 to the Pallava dynasty, and of the fourth or fifth century A. D. was 

 procured in the Belari district, and another very important inscription 

 of the Pallavas found on a large marble pillar at Amaravati has been 

 read by Dr. Hultzsch. During the present season, after completing the 

 examination of Mahavallipuram, the staff will take up the antiquarian 

 remains at Vellur and other places in the North Arcot district and the 

 vicinity. In March last, Dr. Burgess made a personal visit to the re- 

 mote shrine of Sri Sailam in the Nallamallas, or Black mountains, and 

 sees reason to think that it is one with the Po-lo-mo-lo-Tci-li rock or 



