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feet, or nearly 2 miles. The long continued Muhammadan occupation 

 of five centuries lias most effectually swept away all traces of Hinduism ; 

 but old coins are occasionally found, of Avhich a few belong to the later 

 Hindu dynasties of the ninth and tenth centuries. From the great 

 size of the place, as well as from its evident antiquity, I should have ex- 

 pected that very old Hindu coins would occasionally be found ; but all 

 my enquiries were fruitless, and the only actual traces of Hindu occupa- 

 tion that I could hear of were two small stone figures, of which one 

 was a representation of Durga slaying the Mahisasur, or " Buffalo- 

 demon," and the other a broken statue of some god which was too 

 much injured to be recognized. 



Notes on Booclh Gya. — By C. Horne, Esq., C.S. 

 [Received 24th April, 1865. Read 7th June, 1865.] 



During the holidays, October and November, 1864, I had an opportu- 

 nity of carefully studying the great Tope at Boodh Gya, relative to which 

 interesting remains of the past there would seem to have been consi- 

 derable discussion between modern archaeologists. 



The subject of the said discussions, whilst referring to the age of 

 the tope itself, relates more particularly to that of the arches, both 

 pointed and semicircular, found in and near the said tope. 



These arches are some of them built of stone, but the greater part 

 are of brick ; and they are all constructed on the radiating principle 

 with external faces of truncated wedges or " voussoirs" — the bricks 

 used in their construction being set on edge and of the description 

 commonly termed Buddhist, their dimensions being either 13J" X 9" 

 X 21" or 15f X 10 1" X 3. 



There are in all no less than nine (9) of these arches, of which 3 are 

 semicircular and 6 pointed. 



But before proceeding farther with my account of them, it will be 

 well to describe as briefly as possible the interior construction of the 

 tope, offering at the same time a few remarks as to its antiquity, as 

 thereby we may be able to infer whether the art of arch-building 

 (radiating, not horizontal) was known to those Avho built the structure 



