1865.] Notes on Boodh Gya. 287 



[Received 6th May, 1865.] [Read 7th June, 1865.] 

 P. 8, — The junction of the inserted work with the original is 

 clear every where. The floor of the upper chamher comes through 

 the wall of the building, i. e. the beaten pucka floor line shews 

 a white line, most plain in the photograph. At the sides too the 

 insertion is most plain. The use of different sized bricks in the 

 different arches, whereas those in the body of the building are all the 

 same, would indicate their having been built at a different date, which 

 most probably wasdong subsequent. 



Nothing in the foregoing paper refers to other structures (excepting 

 to a few temples in Eastern India)— and I am well aware that, as it 

 has been clearly shewn that the radiating arch was known to the 

 builders of the Pyramids, Nineveh, and other very ancient structures, 

 the art of building such arches may have been acquired by travelled 

 Indians ; still I am decidedly of opinion that the builders of the origin- 

 al tower of Boodh Gya were not acquainted with the art of construct- 

 ing a radiating arch, however well they may have constructed them 

 on the horizontal principle." 



