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value, and one is grateful to Prof. Heras for writing This Report, as ever, shows good work methodically it. In the Pudu Mantapam, "the Tirumala's done during 1923-1924, and contains much that is Choultrie of Fergusson," are to be found statues of general interest. For instance, it is pleasant to of the first ten Nayaks of Madura, which are portraits. noto that all the care possible is taken year by They are unique in Indien history and moreover year to preserve the perishable structures at the confirm the succession of these Nayaks as found Palace and City of Mandalay, which thus bid fair in the Tamil chronicles. This consideration alone to last many & year longer. But for the public shows their great importance to South Indian the most interesting part of the Report is that history. relating to the work of restoring and preserving the succession of the Nayaks thus proved is as important buildings, sites of excavations and fresh follows: discoveries. Valuable attention has been paid (1) Visvanátha, (ii) Krishpappa, (iii) 'VisvanAtha to the preservation of the Sulamani and Tilominlo II, (iv) Poriya Krishnappa, (v) Lingama, (vi) temple at Pagan and of the Shitthaung temple Bisvama, (vii) Kastûri Rangappa, (viii) Muttu at Mrohaung in Arakan. Further care has been | Krishnappa, (ix) Muttu Virappa, (x) Tirumala. bestowed on the conservation of the original
R. C. TEMPLE. inscription stones collected by King Bodawpaya in Amarapura City, and this is gratifying to myself, | ANNUAL REPORT, WATSON MUSEUM OF ANTIQUITIES, as their value is beyond estimation and they for 1923-24; RAJKOT, 1924. occupied so much of my attention when in Burma! The report of the Curator, Mr. D. B. Diskalkar, years ago. As the Report says, the collection is mainly concerned with his discovery during the "contains some of the oldest inscriptions as yet year of important copper-plate inscriptions and found in Burma and is a mine of information for other epigraphical material, which throw further the political and religious history of this province. light on the ancient history of Gujarat. Among They were collected by King Bodawpaya from these is the second half of a grant of the Paramara all parts of Burma over a hundred years ago and King Siyaka of Malwa, which, read in conjunction form the largest collection to be found in any one with previously known grants, indicates that place in Burma." Attached to the Report is a Siyaka must have been in possession of a portion very valuable Appendix by that great authority of Gujarat at the time when the Chalukya ruler on such matters-Diwan Bahadur Swami kannu Mulraja had seized Anahilvada from the Chavadas. Pillai--giving a list of dates in the Burmese Com. Another find is a stone inscription of a Kshatrapa mon Era in this collection. Considering that the ruler, found near Chitroda in Cutch, which awaits list covers 37 pp. of the Report, and goes into the full decipherment; while a third is & copy of an difficult chronology of 450 Inscriptions, the inscription of the Silahåra rulor, Aparaditya, on amount of work entailed in compiling it and its & stone now in the Prince of Wales' Museum, value to all future enquirers can be roughly Bombay, which records a grant of land at 'Sthanagauged.
kiya Patana' (i.e., Thans) by the minister, The great medieval King Anorata (1044-77) | Lakshmana Nøyaka. The curious point about crested 43 fortress towns to the North and South this inscription is that it is reported to have been East of Pagan to curb the Shans. One of these found originally at Somnath, that is to say, within was Mekkhaya, and we are given a list of these the dominions of a ruler who, so far as is known, fortresses, which is of value, and an account of had no relations with the Silahára ruler of the North Mekkhayd in some detail.
Konkan. An inscription from Cambey gives much But the most interesting of all the researched information about the Jain mintater Vastupala, into old sites during the year were the excavations viceroy of Viradhavala; and in the course of the at Old Prome (Hmawza). Among these were those year's work the Curator discovered that 17 inscrip. undertaken near Yahandakan village, disclosing tions of the Chudasamas of Junagadh and 30 of an old Pyu cemetery and the important fact that the Chalukyas of Anahilvada have up to the present that people were in the habit of cromating their remained undeciphered and unpublished. Some dead and burying the ashes in urna, "the general of the latter have been forwarded for publication to custom of the Hindus being to throw the ashes into the Editor of Epigraphia Indica, while the Curator's the river after cremation."
reading of the former inscriptions has formed the
R. C. TEMPLE. subject of an article in the Gujarati journal PurgTHE STATUES OF THE NAYAKS OY MADURA IN tattua. Gogha yielded & gold coin of Ghiyas-ud-din
THE PUDU MANTAPAM, by the REY, H. HERAS, Tughlak, which it is hoped to secure for the S.J., M.A., Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Museum. Society, Bangalore, vol. XV, No. 3.
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