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BHIL U-G YWON—BHIL WAR A.

394

There

ing a relic

is

before Asoka’s time

Sanchi tope

no reason to suppose that any stupas were raised

(b.c. 250), so that the earliest possible

some precision. the same platform (known as Xos. 2 and is

Two

fixed with

Mr. Fergusson’s valuable work

undoubted

3) contain relics of

which the reader

historical character, for a description of

date of the

of the smaller topes on

{loc. cit.).

Much

is

referred to

been done

injury has

to these relics by the reckless explorations of archaeologists, but their restoration has been carefully undertaken,

and carried out

in a great

measure. ‘

Besides the group at Sanchi,’ continued Mr. Fergusson,

prises six or seven topes, there

Two

group of eight topes. in square courtyards



‘

which com-

at Sonari, 6 miles distant, another

is

of these are important structures, enclosed

and one of them has yielded numerous

the explorer.

At Satdhara,

has yielded no

relics.

relics to

3 miles farther on, is a great tope 101 feet in diameter, which, like that at Sanchi, seems to have been a stupa and

No.

2,

however, though only 24 feet in diameter, and Moggalana, like No. 3 at

was found

to contain relics of Sariputra

Sanchi.

Besides these there are several others,

much

The most numerous

ruined.

Bhojpur, together

but No.

all

group, however,

small and very is

situated

at

7 miles from Sanchi, where 37 distinct topes are grouped on various platforms. The largest is 66 feet in diameter

2 is

described as one of the most perfect in the neighbourhood,

and, like several others in this group, one which contained important

At Andhar, about

relics.

5 miles

west of Bhojpur,

three small but very interesting topes. this

makes up about

is

a fine group of

AVith those above enumerated,

and separate topes in this small was not one of the most important in India in point of view, and consequently was probably surpassed by sixty distinct

district, Avhich certainly

a religious

many, not only

in the

number but

in the

splendour of their religious

edifices.’

Mr. Fergusson assigns the topes to the three centuries and a half between 250 b.c. and the first century of our era.

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Bhllu-Gywon. Island Burma See Bilu-Gv'won. Bhllwara {Bheelwara .

—

).

at

—A

the

mouth of

the

Salwi'n river, British

tract of countr}’ in Central India

occupied

by a collection of Native States (known as the Bhil or Bhopdwar Agency), under the political superintendence of the Governor-General’s Agent for Central India. Surrounded on all sides by Native States of Central India, principally those of Holkar and Sindhia, Bhilwara consists chiefly of the wild hilly tracts of the Vindhya range north of the Narbada (Nerbudda) river, inhabited principally by Bhi'ls. It includes the following 17 States, together with certain outlying portions of Indore

—

and Gwalior; Dh.r, B.^khtgarh, Jhabua, Ali-Rajpur, Jobat, Katiwara, Rataxmal, Mathwar, Dahi, Nimkhera, Bara-Barkhera,