1865.] Report of the Archeological Survey. 167 
quarries which for ages past have furnished materials for sculptors and 
architects of Upper India. All the ancient statues that I have met 
with in Rohilkhund and Oudh are made of this stone, and there can 
be little doubt that the Buddhist custom of making gifts of statues 
and pillars to the various monasteries must have created such a steady 
demand for the sculptor’s works as would have ensured the continuous 
employment of many skilled workmen. Many of the Bactrian Greeks 
may thus have found remunerative service amongst the Indian Buddhists. 
Indeed, this is the only way in which I can account, not only for the 
very superior execution of many of the earliest specimens of Indian 
art, but also for many of their ornamental details, such as the fluting of 
the pillars in the Western Punjab architecture and the honeysuckle and 
; astragal ornaments of Asoka’s monoliths, all of which are of undoubted 
_ Greek origin. Jn the great fort of Narwar there still exists a Roman 
Catholic chapel, with a burial-ground attached, containing filty tombs 
_ of all sizes, of which two only are inscribed. One records the death of 
a German, named Cornelius Oliver, in A. D. 1747; the other of a 
young girl named Margarita, the daughter of a Hakim or Doctor. 













The first is recorded in Portuguese, the other in Persian. That the 
fifty tombs are those of Christians is proved, not only by the presence 
of the cross on several of the uninscribed head-stones, but by the occur- 
rence of letters I. H. S. surmounted by a cross, on the wall imme- 
diately above the altar. I presume that these Christians were gunners 
who formed the artillery portion of the garrisons of the important 
fortress of Narwar. Here, then, we have the clearest proof of the 
existence of a small body of foreigners in the very heart of India, who 
vere permitted the open exercise of their religion by the most bigoted 
f all mankind, the Indian Muhammadans. Such also I think may have 
been the position of a small party of Bactrian Greeks amongst the 
tolerant Buddhists of the great city of Mathura, about the beginning 
of the Christian era, Their very names are unknown, and their occupa- 
tions are uncertain, but their foreign religion is attested beyond all 
doubt by the presence of a Bacchie altar, bearing the known figure of 
the wine-bibbing Silenus. 
q 
® III.—KHALSI OR SRUGHNA. 
185. About 15 miles to the westward of Masuri, and on the right 
bank of the Jumna just above the junction of the Tons river, there 

