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the large Jaina temple of Panchalinga at Hull. All round Huli 

 there are enough carved stones to illustrate a mythology, and 

 Mr. Burgess remarks that if there were a provincial museum at 

 Belgaum, abundant materials to furnish it would be found at Huli. 

 At Badami there are some fine specimens of cave temples, three of 

 them being Brahmanical, and the fourth Jaina, and all probably 

 belonging to the sixth century. The third cave is the finest of the 

 series, and, in some respects, one of the most remarkable Brahmanical 

 works in India. Though it cannot compare with Elephanta or the 

 Dumar Lena in size, yet it is a large cave filled with a variety of 

 sculptured brackets, statues, carved pilasters, and the like. In 

 this' he found an inscription dating from 579 A.D. which has afforded 

 an invaluable fixed point for the chronology of the Brahmanical 

 caves. The great Saiva and other Dravidian Temples at Pattadkal 

 were also surveyed and delineated.* 



Mr. Burgess's second report dealt with Kathiawar and Cutch. 

 Cutch had up to that time been a terra incognita to the antiquarian, 

 and, though not very rich in remains, it deserved a careful examina- 

 tion. Kathiawar was more famous as the Holy Land of "Western 

 India. It was known to the Greeks and Romans under the name of 

 Xaupaa-r^vrj, the Muhammadans called it by the Prakritised name 

 of Sorath, and the Marathas extended the name of Kathiawar from 

 a central district inhabited by th.e Kathi tribe, to the whole 

 province ; but by Brahmans and natives it is still spoken of as 

 Surashtra. It was doubtless at a very early period brought under 

 the influence of Brahmanical civilisation, and from its position was 

 most accessible to influences from the "West. As early as the 

 reign of the great Asoka of Magadha (B.C. 265-229) we find him 

 inscribing his famous edicts upon a huge granite boulder at the 

 entrance of the pass leading from Junagadh to Girnar. Surashtra 

 was also probably included in the conquests of the Indo-Scythian 

 kings in the second century before Christ.f Its shores were well 

 known to the Alexandrian merchants a few centuries later, but 

 there is much difficulty in identifying the places. 



One of the most important of Mr. Burgess's researches consisted in 

 the discovery of some interesting specimens of the coins of the local 

 Kshatrapa kings of Surashtra and their imperial Gupta successors. 



* See Fergusson's Indian and Eastern Architecture, p. 439 ff. Mr. Burgess's first 

 season's report was published in 1874 by Messrs. W. H. Allen & Co., and was 

 accompanied by numerous photographs, lithographed plans, details, &c. 



t Strabo, lib. xL cap. xi, 1. 



