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containing respectively 6 and 5, then three lines of 6, 6, and 7, then another 
arrangement of three lines with 8, 10, and 11, and lastly yet another arrange¬ 
ment of three lines each of 8 cups. All these cups are small and similar 
in type to those already noticed. 
7. On the lower ledge beneath the first arrangement of three lines of 
large cups, a further combination of three is noticed, a large cup, then a line 
of four, then three. These are weather-worn and somewhat indistinct, and 
may perhaps have been continuations of the upper line. To the left is yet 
another combination of three, two large cups, the upper one of the first line 
with a groove, the two next both grooved, and the lower groove joining the 
two cups, the third also grooved. Then follow two lines containing the one 
six, the other seven large cups. 
8. Sketch III, on plates III and IV, shews cup marks on three separate 
portions of the rock, the first (A) to the left containing eight cups, one of 
which is grooved, the second (B) a straight row of sixteen cups, with a row 
of four running oft at right angles in the centre. The last (C) is a curious 
arrangement of thirteen cups all with grooves or gutters, similar to those 
figured in Plates ix—xiv and xx of Sir J. Simpson’s work. 
9. The sculpturings shewn in Sketch IV of pi. Ill are of a somewhat 
more elaborate type. The first (A) has perhaps been intended for a cobra, 
or a leaf. The second (B) is curious from the combination of lines and large 
cup-marks, some of which are six inches in diameter, and in shape is not unlike 
the “ Swastika”. The third (C) is of a somewhat similar type, and may 
be allowed to claim relationship to Fig. 15, Plate n, of Sir J. Simpson’s 
work. The sizes of the markings are roughly noted on the sketches. I 
have neither the time nor the apjdiances at present to draw them to scale. 
10. From the villagers, and from the old priest at the temple hard 
by, no information was to be obtained of the origin of these markings, 
beyond that “ they were so old that the oldest man in the village had no 
“ knowledge of who had made them, nor had they been made in the time 
“ of their father’s father, but they were most probably the work of the 
“ giants or the goalas (herdsmen) in days gone by.” Much information 
was perhaps hardly to be expected from the class of persons questioned, but 
the subject of their possible origin will be noticed more in detail in later 
paras, of these notes. 
11. On visiting the temple sacred to Mahadeo at the entrance to the 
gorge, I could not help being struck by the peculiar construction of many of 
its shrines as bearing a marked resemblance to these rock markings. In 
addition to the principal shrine, placed within the temple itself, a massive 
little structure, built up of large stones, many of which would appear to 
have been taken from Buddhist ruins so plentiful in the neighbourhood of 
Dwara-Hath, I counted 37 minor shrines within the walled enclosure by 
