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north face, which has been polished, bears the inscription of Asoka’s 
edicts. 
The local edicts here are identical with those at Jaugada, the city 
named being Tosali. This is considered the same as Bosara , on the 
Dosaron river. 
57. Between Bhauli and Khandagiri I had twice to pass through 
Bhuvaneswar . I could not help noticing the extreme beauty of some 
of these ancient temples. Artistic surprises met one everywhere. 
Naturally, one wonders when he meets grouped together in this remote 
corner of India, objects of artistic or religious significance peculiar to 
Rome and Greece, Phoenicia and Egypt. Ganesa has fruit offerings 
placed before him on a Delphic tripod; long gaunt figures adorn the 
great temple, which might have been studied on Cleopatra’s Needle ; 
children drawn with a grace, and figured with a freedom which Albani 
might have envied; statuettes and figures, grouped and singly, which 
disclose a grace one would hardly associate with Indian sculpture—all 
the work of the past! 
58. Besides the great temple I would name as deserving protec- 
tive care — 
the Mukteswara and Parasurdmeswara , 
the Brahmaneswara and Bhaskareswara , 
the Baital Beul and the Raj-Rani temples. 
Each of these has structural and archaeological peculiarities of its 
own. The first three in this list have been the models for the hundreds 
of temples which have made Bhuvaneswar peculiarly the city of 
temples. 
I returned to Calcutta through Cuttack and via Chandbally, arriv¬ 
ing here on the 4th of June. 
A cordial vote of thanks was proposed by Dr. G. A. Grierson to the 
Government of Bengal for the interest taken in the matter of Asoka 
inscriptions in India, which was carried by acclamation. 
The Philological Secretary circulated the following table of com¬ 
parison of selected words and numerals in several Assam languages 
forwarded by Mr. S. E. Peal of Sibsagar. 
