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broken, but near the southern boundary, and exactly 

 opposite to the great staircase, a Yoga stone with twenty- 

 five squares has been uncovered, still in its original position, 

 surrounded by a broad pavement of planed granite. Besides 

 a considerable quantity of iron clamps and nails, pieces of 

 mica and basketfuls of dummala (which I believe to be 

 a species of sandarac, and which is still used here for 

 sacrificial purposes), two copper nails and a few small pieces 

 of copper were found here at a depth of three feet to five 

 feet, but not in the least corroded — a fact I am unable to 

 explain unless by the extreme purity of the copper. I also 

 found two round pieces of the blue glass decorated with 

 a spiral groove, and apparently fragments of a necklace, and 

 also some very thin fragments of green glass, which seemed 

 to be the remains of a small vase or box. The large Vihdra 

 has four smaller annexes at its four corners, with stairways 

 facing each other. 



Still deeper in the jungle another large Vihdra was dis- 

 covered. When the trees and underwood that entombed it 

 were at length cleared away, several pillars of great beauty 

 were brought to light. They are monoliths, with highly 

 decorated capitals, 10 ft. 6 in. in height, while the width of 

 each side of the pillars is ft. Excavations are still going 

 on here, as I have failed at present to discover the staircase 

 which must have led to this beautiful shrine, owing to the 

 vast accumulation of earth and tiles round it. In the centre 

 of the building a " kneeling-stone "—-a granite fald-stool — has 

 been unearthed, one side being decorated with the familiar 

 " dwarf -and-pillar " ornament. 



About two hundred yards to the east of this shrine I dis- 

 covered still another Vihdra, which differs in design from all 

 those previously exposed to view. The platform is, as nearly 

 as possible, 38 ft. square. Three rows of beautiful monolithic 

 pillars, with delicately carved capitals, run from east to west 

 along the two sides of the platform, leaving a blank space 

 in the middle, and I have little doubt that they supported a 

 pagoda, or dome-shaped roof, and represent the only instance 



