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THE TND1A.V AXTIQtJABT. [OCTODEa, period before Buddhism I have not found, either iu the Goduvori or Krishna District, in the p 1 lmve visited; nil the pieces among the ruins hare grotesque and uidiunum-shftpftd sculpruru on thouu which is not the case in the earlier tempk-s, where noma of tun sculptures of human beingy urO almost (HgBsl Ira those of the Greeks. Of dm remains of Buddhist temple* I haro seen two in tho Upper Godnvarl. One this tho - i ■ of having been one of the for Buddhist temples, Tho wall of Qui cuctusure, sonic £00 I ««, had on two sides u ruugU Biuue will laced with cut stone soma eighteen feet high ; on the other two sides the hill fa ar cliff. The entrance gate was built of immense blocks of stone ; the top beam consisted of it square stona with Bnddlia and two ulvphauki with i -dr trunks ponring 1 water on him carved on it.* Subsequently this tempi© seems to have passed into Hindu bunds. By the broken stone bulls in the enelosnre, and by some Mn- hammadnn coins found in the old well, now nearly n I led up with rubbish, it seams to haro been occupied by them, probably as a fortress, for which it is. well situated, being oloeo to tho ruin at DavnrapiUi, Tho next instance of Ttaddkism are two stones (lull It into a small temple at Lingala) with tho sacred duck or dodo carved on them. I have not eeeu ttnj remains of Join temples or idols in the Upper Gotbivnri. Ruins of Hind? temples am nnrnermK I On the British and NizAm's side of the river. The tern [ilea hartrau been small, and the idols vtttj ronghfy carved. Of the present temples in the Upper Godsvuri noue exceed -100 years m One small temple at Pumashab i* snicl to be bmlt near the spot from which the wife of llAtnn (flBdUrrJiri'-iM' to ' Vylon. and Oft one stone in a WM n nt the back of the temple is shown a. bo l» the spot the wife stood op when slie way forcibly carried off. The fou I is thin ; but 1 rather think it has been cut in the fctono. In excavating among the ruins of m small temple St Xclunilli, some four miles north- east of Dnmagndena, I found u rough stone (hard) soma two feet six inches Ioj four inches bread and four inches thick ; on it are carved some Telugu letters. The language is Sanskrit ; tho dote is plain ; the stone is ?M) years old. 4. The Cliribtianremams are on tho Kiiam's I :ili' near MuiigupttA in the juio/les. find consist of bc vriil stone crosses ; + one some thirteen feet high, and also a structure which on. first ap- pearance look* like a tomb ; it is seven feet above ground, ul> foot square, closed on three sides, open on one, and reefed in with an im- mense flub of stone. When I saw thmnlwnA pressed for time, aud so did not examine them closely. I did nut see any inscription, nor hod I means to moke tiny i-jceavution. To fix Uie duto of these crosses is rather a difficult matter. Ghristiunity (the Syrian Church) wns intrc- duced into India in 400 a.d. These churches re- mained in peace Till tlic arrival of the Portuguese in tin century, when persecution began* and was brought to a climax in 1699 s.i>.» when BlenescSi Archbishop of Uon, instituted the Inquisition, and ordered all the Syr-inn hooks to bo destroyed and burnt. It is well known thut many of I be Syrian Christians sought refngn by flight inland,— they were favourably looked 00 ie iliuduH; bat whether these crosses were put up by tbotfl* or belong to an earlier jw is a question that can only be decided in ease any inscriptions arc found on or near them. T. Va> Executive .Engineer, U.P.W. Ii'tivrtala, 4f A Dee. 1871. PROGRESS OF nlMINTAL RESEARCH, 1874-76. {Abridged from tho Am*"' ! JUjpOfi of the Eeyal AHotU Society. May lS"o.) Profe»»or JmIui Dawson Has contributed to FartS,
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t ?— ArchBQloficat Hrjmrt Ira and fa. ii. 1A i F«so»»oir» 7rw and smwit tt'vfihip, tod «L wb HW, 112, IIS. 120. i4'2. 3SS— Ki». t tImwo ctomn betuUf to tut bib* iff u Uis twifflitHitir- i.t from T a k h t-i-tt a h i by Dr. Leitncr, and UOW tn the Labor Uttssam. The documutit J'n* cords the «am« and title or tho king mihdrayiua Gtowph&mmt whum both Cencml Cunningham mitl IVofesiur Dowson. lndepend>ntly of each other, ttQ4fe— Bb risii ChrirtiBm exbt^l Is th» Haitbr&l- nUirira m littv si tbn imiitMatli Crttnry, w« tboole tn nil (.niinii'.ilUy luiw bftd turns aurbtkiaut tfto fs.d, I? torn, thtne cww can kadlly bt >A later ih.tr UUvb am.
