200 Proceeding* of the Asiatic Society. [Dec. 



" This notice of the inscription reminded me that I had by me some 

 robbings of it, taken when I first discovered it. They are very rough 

 and incomplete, and as General Cunningham says lie has made a copy 

 and taken an impression of the inscription, I have been in doubt 

 whether it was worth while sending these to you. But as they 

 are made, and as they may possibly be of some use in helping to 

 determine the form of a disputed letter, I have forwarded them 

 to you. 



" Col. Cunningham, in his Report for 18G2-G3, says that he is not 

 inclined now to place the position of the capital of the Kingdom of 

 Su-lu-kin-na or Svughna ' in the immediate neighbourhood of the 

 rock inscription of Khalsi,' as he was at first; but thinks that the 

 most probable position is Paota, a village on the right bank of the 

 Jumna some twelve miles lower down. As far as any archaeological 

 or historical reasons are concerned, I am unable to give a judgment in 

 the matter. But as General Cunningham says that one thing that 

 makes him incline to the change is, that he ' could neither find nor 

 hear of any ruins in its vicinity,' it may be of use to mention that 

 the people of Khalsi have a tradition of a great city having once 

 existed around this boulder rock. They say that it covered the whole 

 of the steppe above the Jumna, at whose foot the bowlder stands. They 

 also made mention of some large ruin at the foot of the hill which 

 arises above this steppe, and not far from the point where the Tonse 

 river impinges on it. Not having seen General Cunningham's detailed 

 account, I do not know to what points he has adverted, or if he men- 

 tions having noticed a line of circuinvallation, which must have run 

 along the whole of the upper edge of the plateau. I once traced the 

 foundation line for a long way with but few breaks ; but as I did not 

 make any excavation, I do not know to what age the masonry belonged. 

 At one point in the line is a small mound, where there were, I think, 

 sunn; of the peculiar Buddhist pillars lying about. 



" I was also told that there were some very extensive ruins on the 

 other side of the Jumna, on a plateau similar to the Khalsi rock one, 

 and almost immediately opposite to it. They were said to be situated 

 a short way above tin. 1 small Gtodown, which stands not far from the 

 head of the Kutfca Puthur Canal. 



"Not far from the Canal bungalow at Umbarcc, and immediately on 



