An account of the Antiquities of Mukhalin- 
gam and its neighbourhood. 
BY GIDUGU VENKATA RAMAMUETI. 
The omission of the important antiquities of Mukhalin- 
gam in Mr. SewelPs Lists led me to visit the place which 
I examined ou the 15th and 16th of January 1893 as well 
as my time and knowledge permitted The following short 
account which I give from the notes that I took then, does 
not pretend to be either complete or quite accurate. It 
is a place which should be examined by competent scho- 
lars whom it is my object to induce by this account to go 
there. Educated Hindus have some facilities which foreis^n- 
ers have not and are, therefore, in a position to help the 
Government, which has been taking a good deal of interest 
in archgeological researches, by bringing to its notice at 
least the existence of antiquities in out of the way places. 
With the help of Dr. BurnelPs South-Indian Palseographj 
and Mr. Sewell's Tjists of Antiqtiitief: much ""useful work 
can be done by Hindus, who are entitled to enter auv 
temple, and can examine the inscriptions and other curio- 
sities even in the interior of the sanctuary. There are 
inscriptions on isolated stones, on temples, and on copper 
plates scattered here and there, and some of them have 
not yet been examined. It behoves the educated gentlemen 
of Gaujam and Vizagapatam particularly to work in this 
direction as far as they can ; because they live in the heart 
of what was ouco one of the most important and ancient of 
