1862.] On some B act ro- Buddhist Belies from Bdwal Bindi, 175 



XLII (A. D. 1742-3), we read of "many Gentlemen, who had seen 

 those Creatures in Persia, and other Parts of the East." Can this refer- 

 ence to Persia he a mistake ? Or were such animals, at little more 

 than a century ago, occasionally conveyed (when young) from the 

 Indus to the Persian Gulf ? Rather than from the eastward of Cape 

 Comorin ? Were it not for the locality assigned, I should have been 

 inclined to suspect that Parsons's figures were intended for Ph. son- 

 daicus, from the somewhat greater elevation of the limbs, the more 

 evenly (though too coarsely) tuberculated hide, and especially the de- 

 lineation of the nape region, as compared with the figures by Ed- 

 wards, Buffon, and Cuvier and Geoffro*y. At the same time, I have 

 already noticed, that the hide of the Lesser One- horned Rhinoceros 

 of Bengal is by no means so neatly tessellated in appearance as is 

 shewn by Dr. S. Muller's figure of the Javanese Rhinoceros. 



I find that I was wrong, in p. 163 antea, in stating that our Rhi- 

 noceros-skeleton was presented by a late Nawab Nazim of Bengal. 

 Three skeletons, those of Elephant, Camel, and Tiger (the last now 

 replaced by a much finer one), were presented in 1839, by His late 

 Majesty of Oudh, Nussir-ud-Dowlah, J. A. S. VIII, 688. For the 

 history of our Rhinoceros-skeleton, vide J. A. S. Ill, 142, IX, 518, X, 

 928. The animal was killed in the Jessore district. 



On some Bactro-Buddlust Relies from Bdwal Bindi. — By Babu 

 Rajendralala Mitra. 



In February, 1861, Capt, Stubbs, of the Artillery, forwarded to the 

 Asiatic Society, through Col. J. Abbott, draughts of certain interest- 

 ing relics found in a field 23 miles to the north-west of Rawal Pin- 

 di, and between the villages of Shah ke Deri and Osman Khatur. 

 The place is said to be rocky and covered for many miles with frag* 

 ments of dressed stones and ruined buildings which have, in some 

 spots, formed mounds of considerable height, overgrown with jungle. 

 Traces remain of some of the buildings having been made of quar- 

 ried stones with lime mortar. Copper coins and fragments of statuary 

 are also met with. The relics under notice were exhumed by two 

 zemindars of the place while digging among some mounds in quest 

 of treasure. They had been evidently deposited in the centre of a 

 masonry building, the foundation of which was met with at the 



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