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 THE INDIAN JLEHTQITABT. Ptattcn, 187f». the people of Gunj ; but they could, or would, tell m<* nothing about it. I failed altogether in finding any inscription among the rained temples, or on ft fin© well between them and the village. From Q uu j it is alwut eight miles to t! i tcs ( n favourite aunp in a beautiful prove or mango and jack trees on the hank uf the Waitunia ; und fn«uj there it is three more to Ware, formerly the royal residence of the J a w a r 14,1 jus. Nothing remains uf them hut a few tombs completely dismantled by the Wad>ma;* a mosque and temple of iLirntl — both in ruin* 5 and a good tank, tho «tonn facings of which Have boafl pretty well trampled into the mad by thu village bu unices. Marching hack from Ware to Uhi- vandl by tho shortest route, notli'i recording it to bo seen except a dam formed across the Tausn river at DighiUbi by a basaltic dyke, which any one not well acquainted with tho trap formations would have difficulty in ring not bo bo ill artificial barrier " by tho hands of gusatSi for godlike kings of old," Ji cotghl bu mode the foundation of a good masonry dam easily enough, and the formation of the bind is suitable for an irriga- tion scheme; hnt the agriculture of the Koiikuu has not got tip to irrigation-point p< — ut least en this scale. t Hut on marching from Bhivondi eastwards my inquiries were rewarded by two 1 3 of so tjineo. I had been told by Mr. MAdlutvTt'irt Anunt Guptc, limiuditr of Bad liana, and holder of ono of tho Anuria sanad* already mentioned, (hat "there was a temple on the top of a hill in iho j u utile of L o n a d, which ho had not himself visited, but understood !•< be of groat antiquity and wui.tfiry, und a place ef
 * " mid being at Lonad on

duty, I mode inquiries, upon which tho ri lingers showed mo a fine but mined temple of Malta* dura in the village, which appeared to have been found r-d by someWy who know how both to hail I ii d d carve, and afterwards con. tinned or repaired in a period of considerable decadence of both arte, I had not at tho tinw Beuu Ambarniti.il. but on visiting that tansfa I saw at once that it was. Identical in style with t hn older part of t he temple of ban Ad, So • /"it AnL toL tn. rfu 1«5 tni W- t Mr. T<tt7 found at Aw Wulti tho reaauiu trf * tot lurgeauwl, nfoewbn upon the 3rd ofJenuaryT started olf baek to Leaftd, determined to hunt up the temple u in the jungle," and supposing that it might pure to be another member of the same family. The Tillfig< rimdy onongh to emne ; and after about twenty minutes' riding and climbing, we came, net to a Soiva structural temple, hut to, oh 1 tluuk, a Buddhist vih&ra which 1 have every reason to .believe had hitherto escaped European discovery, h is in a hill which forms ono side of a glen above Lonad, (aeimr S. by W. and ennsist* of the fallowing portions: — First, an outer rcraidah li' yards long by 3f wide and high. A good deal of the rock in front, has tumbled down, but it does not appear ever to hare been supported by pillars, nor could I ate among tho debris any remnants of chisel-work or sculpture. About this, however, one could not bo certain without clearing away tho frng- luente — a work of considerable labour, and not to be accomplished without pick and crow. Attbir lr' und of this verandah ii a email cuttvrn uf good water, said to ebb and How with the tide in the Kily iuj creek, about 175 feet by aneroid below this level. It certainly did Appear to liave recently shrunk a oouple of inchea ut tin- period of my visit, about one third of ebb-tide; but it would reqirifO a day's rotiduuee on the spot to certify tint phenomenon, and a good many to explan Opposite the well is a large group or figures in high relief. They seem to represent a king sur- rounded by his court s there is nothing monsi roun or unnatural, and very little oven of omu- in tlui sculpture, Tho principal figures are lifc- skc, four feet high as they At the back of this verandah is a frit-jus walp- tmvil in lower relief, a foot deep, and running the whole length of fcbs uiTe. 'Thorp are figures on it of pretty in- that on Indian artist could think o£ from a charging elt-phant to ft woman on abed, executed with much skill mid spirit. This verandah is separated from on inner ono It yards X o X 3 by four pt liars and two pitiMlers* The pillars are all three feet square; the two centra ones have n carious capital like a tint enl hourglass, Thu outer ones and piles. ■ e plain, having only a sort of leaf at Hie oomers— common enough at Ajaulii, Bbumrr, cVc— nnd a circle oa each side* Tho circle on I Ob iuh«i|i«iDt uwcitlptioa 1 feoad it w*# nil mua-