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feet, or nearly 2 miles. The long continued Muhammadan occupation 
of five centuries has most effectually swept away all traces of Hinduism ; 
but old coins are occasionally found, of which a few belong to the later 
Hindu dynasties of the ninth and tenth centuries. From the great 
size of the place, as well as from its evident antiquity, I should have ex- 
pected that very old Hindu coins would occasionally be found; but all 
my enquiries were fruitless, and the only actual traces of Hindu occupa- 
tion that I could hear of were two small stone figures, of which one 
was a representation of Durga slaying the Mahisdsur, or “ Buffalo- 
demon,” and the other a broken statue of some god which was too 
much injured to be recognized, 
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Notes on Boodh Gya—By C. Hornu, Esq., C.S, 
[Received 24th April, 1865. Read 7th June, 1865.] 
During the holidays, October and November, 1864, I had an opportu- 
nity of carefully studying the great Tope at Boodh Gya, relative to which 
interesting remains of the past there would seem to have been consi- 
derable discussion between modern archeologists. 
The subject of the said discussions, whilst referring to the age of 
the tope itself, relates more particularly to that of the arches, both 
pointed and semicircular, found in and near the said tope. 
These arches are some of them built of stone, but the greater part 
are of brick ; and they are all constructed on the radiating principle 
with external faces of truncated wedges or ‘ voussoirs’’—the bricks 
used in their construction being set on edge and of the description 
commonly termed Buddhist, their dimensions being either 13%” x 9” 
x 22" or 153” & 102” X 3. 
There are in all no less than nine (9) of these arches, of which 3 are 
semicircular and 6 pointed. 
But before proceeding farther with my account of them, it will be 
well to describe as briefly as possible the interior construction of the 
tope, offering at the same time a few remarks as to its antiquity, as 
thereby we may be able to infer whether the art of arch-building 
(radiating, not horizontal) was known to those who built the structure — 
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