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events of that interesting period. Captain Lees lias undertaken to 
edit the work; it will occupy about seven Fasiculi. 
The report was adopted. 
Communications were received— 
1. From Major J. T. Walker, extracts from a report from the 
Superintendent, Great Trigonometrical Survey, to the Secretary to 
the Government of India, Military Department. 
2. From Babu Bajendralal Mitra, a paper on two ancient San¬ 
scrit Inscriptions from Central India. 
3. From Herr E. Schlagintweit, a paper entitled “ Translation 
and Tibetan text of a Tibetan address to the Buddhas of confession.” 
4. A letter from Colonel Cunningham on the Buddhist discoveries 
at Sultanganj. 
Mr. Bay ley read the above. It was as follows : — 
Nynee Tal , 7 tii Sept. 1862. 
To the Secretary, Asiatic Society. 
Dear Sir, —In reply to your letter regarding Mr. Harris’s dis¬ 
covery of some Buddhist remains near Sultanganj, I beg to say that 
there seems to me every probability that the complete excavation of 
the ruined buildings would well repay the cost of the work. I have 
received from Mr. Harris a plan of the ruins, as far as they have 
been excavated, and I am able to state decidedly that they are the 
remains of an ancient Vihar, or Buddhist chapel-monastery. The 
Vihar always included a temple or shrine, containing a figure of 
Buddha ; and in the present case the enshrined figure has already 
been discovered. Around the shrine were the cells of the resident 
monks, who conducted pilgrims to all the holy spots, and retailed 
the legends connected with them. Six cells have already been un¬ 
covered by Mr. Harris. These six cells cannot form more than one- 
sixth or perhaps only one-eighth of the whole number. The cells are 
always disposed on the four sides of a square ; and I would therefore 
recommend that the first operation should be to dig a narrow trench 
along the course of the inner wall, in order to determine at once the 
shape and extent of the mass of buildings. 
In Mr. Fergusson’s Hand Book of Architecture you will find 
several plans of Vihar caves, excavated in the solid rock. In all 
these examples, the cells necessarily occupy only three sides of the 
square, the fourth side being required for the admission of light. 
