354 INDIAN AUCH-EOLOGICAL SURVEYS. 



The Kailasa or Rang Mahal Temple No. XVII. of the series as 

 reckoned from the south, has been pretty fully described in the 

 Gave Temples of India. It was probably constructed in the reign of 

 Dantidurga, the great Rashtrakuta king (in AD. 730-755) and is the 

 most extensive and elaborate rock-cut temple in India, as well as the 

 most magnificent of all the architectural objects with which that 

 country abounds. Long, too, after the great temple was finished, 

 works were carried on at different points in the surrounding rock, 

 shrines and images being added until probably the inroads of the 

 Muhammadans finally put a stop to them. The Brahmanical caves 

 north of Kailasa, except the Dumar Sena, are not so notable, but 

 the two principal Jaina caves are very remarkable both in extent 

 and elaboration. They are later in point of date than the caves 

 belonging to the two other sects. 



Volume V. also deals with various other caves including the 

 famous Elephanta cave in Bombay Harbour which has, of course, 

 been described by numerous authors and archaeologists such as 

 W. Erskine, Wilson, Hunter, and Dr. Burgess himself in 1871. 

 The inscriptions obtained during Dr. Burgess's archaeological tours 

 have been discussed by Professor G. Biihler, C.I.E., of Vienna, in the 

 same report, one chapter being devoted to the famous Nanaghat 

 inscriptions, which belong to the oldest historical documents of 

 Western India, and others to the Kanheri and Dasa Avatara 

 inscriptions. 



In 1SS0, the survey of the Ajanta caves and others in the 

 neighbouring districts was completed and the examination of the 

 Chaluk van temples was begun in the south-east of the Dharwar district 

 in 1881, and continued in 18S2 chiefly in Belgaum. In 1883-84 

 the Muhammadan architecture of G-ujrat, especially at Champaner, 

 Dholka, and Ahmadabad,* was partly surveyed, and an extensive and 

 important series of drawings begun. In 1885 H.H. the Graikwar of 

 Baroda requested that the survey should take up the ancient city of 

 Dabhoi ; this was done by Mr. Cousens, and the result published at 



* In 18S6 Mr. A. W. Crawley Boevey, Bo. C.S., published " A Scheme for the 

 " Protection and Conservation of Antient Buildings in and around the City of 

 " Ahmadabad," (folio, pp. 72 and xcv.) Bombay; Education Society's Press ; which 

 contains a valuable account of the history of the management of the public buildings 

 about Ahmadabad, with suggestions for their better preservation. This is accompanied 

 by a very full list of the Muhammadan mosques and tombs in and around the 

 city, with notes on their condition, &c. Conf. Journal Royal Institute of British 

 Architects (N.S. >. VII., p. 309. 



