1879.] V. A. Smith—Obdservations on some Chandel Antiquities. 287 
We also heard that minute leaflets* of gold had been found in the 
fields about Khajuraho on more than one occasion. They were described as 
being very small, and each pierced with a hole about the size of a barley- 
corn. 
The Political Agent at Nay4gaon (Nowgong) informs us that he has 
never heard of the discovery of any coins at Khajuraho, but there can be 
little doubt that they must be found from time to time, though their dis- 
covery is naturally concealed by the finders who are afraid of being deprived 
of their prize. 
The buildings at Khajuraho have all been noticed by General Cunning- 
ham except a small flat-roofed temple, which now forms part of the dwell- 
ing house of a zamindar in the village. This edifice is of no special inter- 
est, and a defaced inscription on one of the pillars does not seem to be 
valuable. 
We did not succeed in bringing to light any other new inscription. 
The brief pilgrim’s record on one of the pillars of the Ganthai temple, which 
is not mentioned by General Cunningham, is noticed in our remarks on 
that building. : 
We were told that the fragment of an inscribed stone was lying in one 
of the zamindar’s houses, but were prevented from seeing it. So many 
sculptures and other objects have been carried off from Khajuraho by visi- 
tors and pilgrims that the people are now very unwilling to show anything 
which is likely to excite the cupidity of an antiquarian or devotee. 
General Cunningham (II. 434) describes a ‘ magic square’ cut on the 
right jamb of the door of the Jinanath temple and observes—“ The figure 
“ 8 is remarkable for an additional stroke on the left side, which I take to 
“be a mark of antiquity, as it is a near approach to the figure in my 
“ Suhaniya numeral inscription.”” It is, however, perhaps worth while to 
note that this additional stroke is cut to a depth much less than that of 
the rest of the figure, and that it is scarcely discernible on the stone though 
clearly visible in a rubbing (Plate XIV). The other figures too of the 
square are almost identical with the modern forms, and the antiquity of 
the sculpture may well be doubted. 
It is much to be regretted that the short inscription of eleven lines on 
the left jamb of the door of the same Jinandth temple has not been pub- 
lished in facsimile and translated in full. 
General Cunningham has given two abstract translations of it (Arch. 
Rep. II. 433 and J. A. S. B. XXIX, p. 395), and its date,f on which doubt 
* Particles of gold-leaf are found among the ruins of Manikydla, (Cunn. Arch. 
Rep. II. 170.) , 
+ For a rubbing of this date, see Plate XV. 
