1847-] Notes on the Caves of Burabur. 415 



girri in Cuttack. This inscription is immediately over the left corner 

 of the entrance, hnt so weatherworn and mutilated that a casual 

 observer would not perceive it. A sentence seems to have existed over 

 the door, but is now become eligible. 



No. 7 is that published as 15 by Prinsep (see pi. XXXV. Vol VI.) 

 and from the awkward manner in which the separate sheets of impres- 

 sions were taken by the Moonshee, gave so much trouble, and rendered 

 the reading doubtful ; by the impression I now submit,* it will be seen 

 that, instead of its occupying three distinct spaces, the whole is comprised 

 in one, and, as conjectured by Prinsep, it fills the spandril or space be- 

 tween the arched head and the top of the square doorway. I believe 

 Kamulakanta to have been right when he pronounced that the first two 

 lines had no connection with the four last. This struck me at first 

 sight. I have since read the remarks, the letters are smaller, and I think 

 have been added at a somewhat subsequent date ; there can be no doubt 

 that both have been an afterwork, perhaps centuries later than the 

 caves. 



No. 8 has also been rendered by Prinsep in the same volume, but 

 it may be as well to compare the present accurate impression with the 

 former ; it is engraved within the jaumb of the doorway to the Nag- 

 arjuni (oval) cave, the edges are rough owing to the want of skill in 

 cutting. 



No. 9, plate X. appears hitherto to have (together with No. 3, 

 (before described), escaped notice. I trust that some scholar will 

 come forward to translate it, should I not be able with the assistance of 

 a clever pundit to do so, but I shall first beg to invite Saroda-purshad 

 to undertake the task. I feel sure it could not be entrusted to better 

 hands. The character is the same as that of the two foregoing numbers, 

 the dates, therefore, may not much differ. This is likewise cut within 

 the jaumb of the small cave, fig. 3, plate VIII. 



No. 10 is inscribed on either side of the head of a female figure or 

 idol on the Sidheswar temple : It is a very rude performance. 



Nos. 11, 12, 13, and 14, or figs. 7, 8, 9, plate IX. are the curious 



characters to which I would invite the attention of our French and 



German fellow-labourers. I have remarked the same characters on the 



Allahabad pillar, and in the caves of Cuttack. Prinsep refers to the 



* This refers to the inscriptions exhibited at Capt. Kittoe's lecture.— Eds. 



