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wall has been built. I then opened the small remnants of buildings, 
Nos. 9, 10, 11, and, on going to a great depth, I found that there were 
older walls running below, 8 to 13 feet under the surface, which clearly 
belonged to a wholly different and much older building. I now deter¬ 
mined to open the Gandha Kuti and I cleared away the surface of the 
concrete external courtyard on the south, and I soon came on a very 
ancient wall running down in the form of a lower off-set brick slope, and 
forming a masonry terrace round the mound, on which stood the old 
chambers I have already described. It is of the same age and style. 
Further outside this I found the original enclosing wall, entire in its 
whole circuit. Under the modern vestibule I made a tunnel and I found 
the same class of old building below. I found only two objects of 
interest. They were not in the lower or more ancient building. One 
was a fragment of a pottery relief of Buddha standing and preaching. 
This was buried in the general ruin near the top of the mound. The 
other was an image in red sandstone, probably representing the scene in 
Buddha's life when a householder of S'ravasti sent his son to Buddha for 
reception into the brotherhood. At its base was inscribed the usual 
Buddhist formula ‘ Ye dharmina,’ etc., in characters of about the 5th 
century A. D. This stone seems to me to be the fragment of a pillar on 
which this figure may have been carved originally, or after the fracture 
of the pillar. Any how, the stone slopes like a pillar, and the edges are 
dressed, and bear fragments of an old inscription in well executed Sans¬ 
crit characters of early date. These fragments of writing are, as the 
pillar stands, meaningless. 
The numbers 12, 13, mark what General Cunningham has identified 
as the Kosamba Kuti. My attention was in this drawn to the four bedis 
in the part marked 13, and I thought, from what I had seen in Nos. 1 
and 7, that it was not unlikely that this was a recent addition to 12. I 
opened the ground carefully all round to a depth of about 10 ft. and I 
found No. 12 resting on its original foundation and built in the same 
style as the older buildings elsewhere opened, with off-set bricks at 
the base. I opened a small passage and found clearly where this 
formation of wall terminated, 1 ft. 9 in. inside and below the corner 
of 13. I also found on the east side that 13 is not deep below the 
upper surface. Thus clearly the part 13 is not of great antiquity, and it 
is possible that, while the large statue found in 12 by General Cunning¬ 
ham may have been there from a very ancient date, the part 13 was 
added on by either Buddhists or Hindus, who found the statue thus 
surviving the desolation of the seventh century. It is not unusual to 
find Hindus worshipping any image they find, without inquiring whether 
it is Hindu or not. On the north side of this building and close to it, in 
