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bottom. It has only one narrow entrance, from the south, two feet and 

 a half in breadth, six feet high and of thickness equal. This leads to a 

 room of an oval form, with a vaulted roof, which I measured twice, and 

 found to be forty-four feet in length from east to west, eighteen feet and 

 a half in breadth, and ten feet and and a quarter in height at the centre. 

 " This immense cavity is dug entirely out of the solid rock, and is exceed- 

 ingly well polished, but without any ornament. The same stone extends 

 much farther than the excavated part, on each side of it, and is altogether 

 J imagine full a hundred feet in length There are two inscrip- 

 tions, one on each side of the entrance, impressions of both which my 

 Munshi took off in the course of three days with much trouble, and suffi- 

 cient accuracy to enable Mr. Wilkins to understand and explain the 

 whole of one:— the other which consists only of one line is unfortunately 

 of a different character and remains still unintelligible." 



Mr. Harington's scrutiny must evidently have been of a very 

 cursory nature, although he visited the place in company with Sir 

 William Jones himself; for the numerous other chambers alluded to 

 in the tickets of the impressions now received are not even hinted at, 

 and instead of two inscriptions I am now able to lay before the reader 

 no less than twenty-three from the Ndgdrjuni, the Karn chahpdr, and 

 the Haftkhdneh caves ; as they are entitled in the Persian munshi's 

 labels. 



No. I Of the list (plate XXXIV.) is Wilkins' inscription, the 

 same which instructed us in the reading of the secondary character of 

 the Allahabad pillar, &c. The following is the modern transcript, in 

 which I am able to fill up the name of the village, Dandi (or it may be 

 Pandi), settled in endowment upon the priests by Ananta Varma. 



