Indian Antiquary Vol 06

SR No.: 032498
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 458
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 21 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[Arril, 1877
best sort is retailed at the rate of 40 sheets for a current rupee [18. 10d.], and at wholesale 80 sheets. The second is retailed at the rate of 50 sheets for & current rapee, and 100 at wholesale. The third is of a much smaller size, is retailed at 140 sheets, and wholesale 160 to 170 for the rupee. The following is the very simple method of manufacturing this paper :
" After scraping off the outer surface of the bark, what remains is boiled in fair water with a small quantity of the ashes of the oak, most necessary part of the ingredients, which have the effect of cleaning and whitening the staff. After the boiling, it is washed, and immediately beat to & pulp with small mallets on a stone, so that when mixed up in a vat with the fairest water it has the appearance of flour and water. It is then spread on moulds or frames made of common bamboo mats.'"
Thus ends Wallich's notice of this interesting
who pronounced so favourably upon it, or it may have been through the Court of Directors. From the character of the plant, and the elevation at which it grows, I am of opinion that it might easily be grown in England, even on poor soils. Lieut. Murray says it is found on the bleakest spots; but my experience is quite to the contrary. I have always found it growing best with forest trees, even in shade, and nourished by the free leaf-mould formed of the decayed onk-leaves. At the same time I am bound to admit I have found it growing in other situations, more bleak and exposed. Major Hay, who was long in the hills, always found it with and under trees, and agrees with me that it seldom exceeds three feet in height.
(Extract from Journal in 1845.) Near the residence of a Lâmå at Kardang, in Lahul, we saw a number of Bhotiâs making paper from the bark of a tree they say they get in Külld, called " Bujil," a species of Daphne. A number of people were beating it into a pulp, which others made into round balls; and, a little further on, the paper was being made in oblong and square forms of a large size, entirely for the purpose of having religions books printed on it, and not for sale. The form was made of a light wooden frame, covered with rather & coarse cloth, on which the pulp was mashed. I saw a quantity of the paper drying, but not the process of putting it on the cloth.
plant.
From what has been here written, the general inference would appear to be that the pulp, in bricks or otherwise, could not be procured in any large quantity for the supply of paper factories ; although, as in many other cases, it might be employed to usefully supplement existing and available materials.
Perhaps the Society of Arts was the medium through which, as Mr. Hodgson states, the pulp was supplied to the English manufacturers,
NOTES ON THE CAVE OF PANCHALEŚVARA IN MOUJE BHAMBURDE, TALUKA
HAVELI, ZILLA PUŅA.
BY W. F. SINCLAIR, Bo. C.S. This cave is mentioned by Dr. Wilson in swell of the ground" close to the cattle bazaar his first Memorandum on the Ancient Remains of the village of Bhambarde, opposite Pani, of Western India, and by Mr. Fergusson, who immediately north of a small hill crowned by a gives a woodcut from a sketch by Daniell,* Muhammadân pirastrán, and east of a large tolerably accurate as representing the style quarry. of architecture, but failing as regards the gene- The entrance is through a tunnel about twenty ral appearance of the place. It has also been feet long and five wide. This-which has sufat least twice photographed, but I am not aware fered a good deal from time, and is now partly that any copies are now in print. During the supported by masonry-opens into the east side past monsoon I had an accurate plan taken of of a court averaging 95 feet north and south by it, which is now with the Archwological bar. 90 east and west, and ten feet below the surface veyor, and I think the following notes may be of the ground around. The centre of this court useful.
is oocupied by the Nandi pavilion, which is It is in "a rocky hillock forming a gentle remarkable and, I believe, unique. It is hewn • Jour. Bo. Br. R. As. Soc. volIII. pt. ii. p. 56; Fergus- A squaro pavilion stands in front of the large Saiva non's Hist. of Indian and Eastern Architecture, p. 46. care at Amba or Mominábad.-ED.