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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[August, 1903.
the spot where he had rosted on one of his visits to the island, and the Mahasøya Dagoba built over a single hair which grew between his eye-brows. In Kelaniya is erected a Dagoba over the golden chair on which Buddha bad sat, and an eddy in the river that flows by is shown as the waters making obeisance to where he once stood. An old Singhalese couplet -
Upanda sifa kkarapu pav neta
Varuk vendot Kelanie - asserts, "if a person once worships at Kelaniya, all the sins committed from the day of his birth are forgiven." The Mahiyangana Dagoba at Bintenna encases a handful of Buddha's locks and his neck-bone relic, but pilgrimages to it are rare, owing to the pestilential malaria and the wild beasts that infest the surrounding jangles,
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CORRESPONDENCE. CAVE BURIAL IN BALUCHISTAN.
the hole, which is almost in the centre, one finds Dear Sir,-Whilst recently travelling in the
oneself in an underground vault oonsisting of a Jhåldwân country to the south-east of Kaldt, my
front chamber and two recesses. The breadth of companion (Lieutenant E. O. Macleod, 1st Sikhe) the chamber is about 18 feet and the length to and I were encamped near the small village of
the back of each chamber about 16 feet. The Pandean. Whilst there, Lieutenant Macleod
recesses are round, with domed roofs, and the visited a curious vaulted cave near the village, and
front chamber has a domed roof. Thus:I now enclose the account of the place which he gave me, in case it should be of interest to you. I also enclose a photograph of the interior which Lieutenant Macleod took under some difficulty. Any explanation of this curious mode of sepulture would be of particular interest to me in connection with the Ethnographical Survey of Baluchistan which I am now undertaking.
Yours faithfully,
R. HUGHER-BULLER, Superintendent, Imperial Gazetteer, Baluchistan,
Fig. 4
ACTION OF MOWT.HAW RECESE. the 19th November, 1908. Querid, 8th December,
The whole appears to have been hewn out of the conglomerato rook. At the left-hand
corner of the centre partition is a heap of PANDBAN.
bones, and with this exception there is nothing Pandran is a pretty place on a basin of the in the left-hand recess. hills with plenty of water from two springs on
In the right-hand recess in the centre a niche the west. The village, which contains five or six
has been cut out of the rock, about 6x3" x 3'. Banniahs' shope and about fifty hotees, is situated
In it there are twenty-five skulls; one of them round an elevated rock known as Anbir. There
is a small one and appears to be that of a child. is much cultivation and plenty of trees.
The rest appear to be those of adults. There are Due west of the village, at a distance of about also the ribs and leg-bones of a child down to & quarter of a mile, is an extraordinary gave the knees. In the oentre of the right-hand recess situated in the skirt of the hill. All the ground lies a bed which, according to the country people, round is rolling, and in the side of one of the when the vault was just opened, supported folds is a hole just big enough for a large man skoloton. The strings of the bed have now, bow. to squeeze through. It is said that this hole was ever, given way, and the skeleton, which is uncovered and exposed to view by a food of evidently that of a man, is lying on its back, on erosion some 50 or 60 years ago. On entering the ground below the bed. There are holes, which
