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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[MAY, 1873
“Now, for the amusement of the learned, the stanzas addressed to that deity. No menaccount of the composition of the illustrious tion, however, is made of the Jaina Sûri
Century addressed to the Sun,' is narrated, as | Manatunga, who plays so great a part it has been learnt from the mouth of the illus- | in the account of the commentary on the trious ancients. It is as follows. Two eastern | Bhaktámara. poeta, called Bâņa and May û ra, lived at the Madhusudana's account, learnt from the court of Maharaja Sriharsha, the chief of mouth of the illustrious ancients,' and written poeta, the composer of the NatikA called Rat- down a thousand years after Harshavardhana's návali, who was lord of Mala va and whose and Båna's times, of course cannot claim any capital was Ujjain. Amongst them Ma- higher authority than any other of the thousand yhrab hatta was the father-in-law, and and one literary anecdotes which delight the PanBáņabhatta, the author of the Kadambari, dits of our days. It contains undoubtedly some was his son-in-law. They were rivals in poetry. grains of truth, as it associates Srîbarsha with But B &ņa bhatta had before, at some time or Båņa and Mayůra. It is probably inaccurate in other, approached the king, had been honour- making Ujjain Sriharsha's capital. For ably settled near him, and dwelt with his family though, according to the Harshacharita, Rajyain Ujjain. After the lapse of some time the vardhana, Sriharsha's elder brother, conquered king heard, on the occasion of a poetical recital, Mâlava, neither that work nor Hiwen Thsang's some verses of Mayûra bhatta and called account of his stay with Harsha shows that that him from his country," etc.
monarch actually resided there. The importance The remainder of the story agrees with the of Madhusudana's story lies in this, that it posextract from an anonymous commentary on the sesses an authority equal to that of the statement Bhaktámarastotra, adduced by Dr. Hall, Vasa- of Mammaţa's three commentators about Dhavadatta p. 8, and narrates how, in punishment vaka, and consequently tends to discredit the of a licentious description of his daughter's latter. The various reading given by Siticharms, Mayura became a leper and was kantha gains in importance, and Dr. Hall's indecored by the Sun after composing a century of pendent arguments are strengthened.
NOTE ON A BUDDHIST CAVE AT BHAMER, KHANDESH.
BY W. F. SINCLAIB, Bo. C. S., KH ANDESH, The fort of Bhamer, in the Nizâmpur deva, who has here a temple of considerable size Petå of Khandesh, lies about 30 miles W. by N. and unknown antiquity. This tank and another of Dhulia as the crow flies, and consists of two are dry; the only one retaining any water is a steep rocks lying nearly at right angles to each little lake called the Raj Talao, which local traother, and rising from the centre of a plateau dition holds to be bottomless, and to have an unwhich separates the valleys of the Kan and derground communication with a spring called Burai rivers.
the Go kûr Påni, about three miles away The hollow between them, facing south, is on the further or northern side of the fort. enclosed by two semicircular and concentric | There are several caves visible in the eastern ramparts, within the lesser or innermost of which and larger hill, and one in the western. This lies the macht or cantonment, while the outer latter is a small plain vihara, resembling some protects the town or kasba. Each of these has of those at Junnar; the first two in the eastern but ono gate, and there is no other approach or castle hill are apparently mere cellars and but by a steep and narrow footpath between the reservoirs of the same class as those at Lalling two hills, called the K&f&i Bari. The space near Dhulia, and probably of no great antithus enclosed is of about 100 acres, and seems to quity; but on entering the third, above the havo formerly contained about a thousand houses doors of which I noticed some carving, I was besides several fine wells and cisterns; but surprised and delighted to find myself in a there are now about a dozen resident families, vihåra much resembling, but for its small size, half of them Bhills and Mhárs. There are three some of those at Ajanta. I had, unfortunately, large tanks, one of which is sacred to Maha- no means of measurement with me; and the
