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 CHAP. III. STUPAS. 101 diameter of the stiipa was only 49 ft., and the height of it, before excavation, must have been about 50 ft, The special interest of the excavators, however, was in the relic caskets, which, with some interesting figures of Buddhas, contained a silver coin of Sri Yadnya Gautamiputra, who reigned about the end of the 3rd century A.D. 1 1 In 1889 Mr Campbell had the Boria slupa, at the foot of Mount Girnar excavated ; but the account given in the ' Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,' vol. Ix. pp. 17-23, is defective in details. In April 1898 Mr. Cousens found the basement of another stiipa at Sopara with the empty relic casket. 29. Parinirvana of Buddha. From Cave 26 at Ajanta.