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more important in results than done in 1888-9 and 1889-90, and the Jaina antiquities discovered during this working season made significant addition to the extant knowledge of Indian history and art.56
Some Jaina sculptures were discovered from Śītalā Ghātī, Rāni-Ki-Mandi and Manoharpurā localities of Mathurā also.57 The bulk of sculptures found from Kankālī Tīlā were sent to Agra and were placed in the Riddel Museum which existed there at that time.58 The Riddel Museum was broken in 1875 or shortly before it, and the greater part of its holdings was removed to Allahabad.59 The reconstituted Provincial Museum at Lucknow opened on 1 July, 1884, and most of the sculptures which had gone to Allahabad from Agra were transferred to the Lucknow Museum.60 In short, most of the Jaina antiquities excavated from Kankāli Tīlā were forwarded to the Lucknow Museum1 or placed in the grounds of the Mathurā Museum.62
The excavations at Kankāli Țīlā unearthed a large number of Jaina inscriptions. Sixty-two of the seven hundred thirty-seven sculptures discovered by Fuhrer from Kankālī Tīlā bore inscriptions which ranged in dates from 150 BC to AD 1023.63 Fuhrer kept on sending impressions and photographs of the inscriptions discovered from Kankāli Tīlā to Buhler. 64 Buhler translated and interpreted these inscriptions and published a selection from them in Eigraphia Indica.66 Thirty-five Jaina inscriptions discovered from KankālīȚīlā, Mathurā were published by Buhler in volume I of Epigraphia Indica under the title New
56. JS, Introduction, p. 3. 57. JAA, I, p. 52 fn. 6; ASIAR, 1906-7, p. 141. 58. ASIAR, 1906-7, p. 141. 59. Ibid. 60. Ibid. 61. Ibid., MI, p. 41. 62. MI, p. 41. 63. JS, Introduction, p. 3. 64. EI, I, p. 371 fn. 2; EI, II, p. 195 fn 1; JS, Introduction, p. 4. 65. JS Introduction, p. 4; MCH, p. 107.
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