Indian Antiquary Vol 31

SR No.: 032523
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 556
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[NOVIMBEE, 1902.
On the south of the village, not shown in the sketch, is a large earthon well, inside which is visible a brick-wall about 8 feet below the present level of the ground. In a new well close by, which was then dug, a bluish-white sandy earth was found about 12 feet below the sarface, which belongs only to the bed of the Ganges. This fact shows that one of the channels of this river need to flow over this spot at some prehistoric period. And just below this Ganges silt, when the sub-soil water was reached, that is, at 19 feet, was found a block of sál-wood rotten with age, which might have belonged to the palisade of Palibothra (Patalipatra), mentioned by Megasthenes. I secured some pieces of it for the proposed local Museum. In the neighbourhood were other indications of ancient remains.
North of the garden, where I found the wall of the Mauryan palace, I came across a terrace or brick floor, about 36 by 10 feet, two feet below the present fieid, which I cleared. And just West or it, and under a big tamarind tree, was a very interesting piece of coping stone, which once crowned a Buddhistic railing surrounding a stúpa, most probably the one mentioned by Hinen Tsiang. This coping stone was carved on one face with three human figures, three birds and two trees--now worshipped by the villagers as a sylvan deity (800 Fig. 1 above). So it was not possible to secure it for museum purpuses. That the stúpa was here is evident. not only from what the Chinese traveller recorded, but from the archeological indications traceable in this place and its neighbourhood,
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On the north-west of the Chaman Taldo (see Fig. 4), I went deeper into an @Icavation of 1895; and, cutting in different directions, north and south, east and west, I brought to light some walla composed of large bricks, the parpose of which is not yet clear, They were 10'8" below the
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