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know not where the original is now deposited. Major Kittoe’s fac- 
simile of the inscription is perhaps amongst those deposited by him 
in the Asiatic Soeiety’s Museum. 
246, My reasons for fixing on the large round hole, 520 feet to 
the west of the great tower, as the site of the stupa excavated by 
Jagat Singh, are the following :--In 1835, when I was engaged in 
opening the great tower itself, I made repeated enquiries regarding 
the scenes of Jagat Singh’s discovery. Every one had heard of the 
finding of a stone box which contained bones, and jewels, and gold, 
but every one professed ignorance of the locality. At length an old 
man named Sangkar, an inhabitant of the neighbouring village of 
Singhpur, came forward and informed me that when he was a boy, he 
had been employed in the excavations made by Jagat Singh, and that 
he knew all about the discovery of the jewels, &¢. According to his 
account the discovery consisted of two boxes, the outer one being a 
large round box of common stone, and the inner one a cylindrical box 
of green marble, about 15 inches in height and 5 or 6 inches in diame- 
ter. The contents of the inner box were 40 to 46 pearls, 14 rubies, 
8 silver and 9 gold earrings (karn phul), and three pieces of human 
arm bone. The marble box was taken to the Bara Sahib (Jonathan 
Dunean), but the stone box was left undisturbed in its original posi- 
tion. As the last statement evidently afforded a ready means of 
testing the man’s veracity, I enquired if he could point out the spot 
where the box was left. To this question he replied without any 
hesitation in the affirmative, and I at once engaged him to dig up the 
box. We proceeded together to the site of the present circular hole, 
which was then a low uneven mound in the centre of a hollow, and 
after marking out a small space about 4 feet in diameter, he began to 
work. Before sunset he had reached the stone box at a depth of 12 
feet and at less than 2 feet from the middle of the well which he had 
sunk. The box was a large circular block of common Chunar sand- 
stone, pierced with a rough cylindrical chamber in the centre, and 
covered with a flat slab as a lid. I presented this box, along with 
about 60 statues, to the Bengal Asiatic Society, and it is now in 
their Museum, where I lately recognized it. In their catalogue, 
however, it is described as “942 B, a Sarcophagus found in the tope 
of Alanikyala (!) ; Donor, Lieutenant A, Cunningham.” 
247. The discovery of the stone box was the most complete and 
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