Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal . thevery great durability of the basaltic rock as compared with the gra-nite of the Coromandel coast. We have no reason to believe thatthe umbrella-shaped summits of the temples, which for want of abetter term I have called chaityas, are otherwise than contempora-neous with the. rest of the temple; and they are of course equallyexposed to the spray and saline atmosphere : yet they appear per-fectly fresh and uninjured, while the granite has lost the whole ofits outer surface by gradual disintegration and exfoliation. I append two sketch plans to elucidate
Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal . thevery great durability of the basaltic rock as compared with the gra-nite of the Coromandel coast. We have no reason to believe thatthe umbrella-shaped summits of the temples, which for want of abetter term I have called chaityas, are otherwise than contempora-neous with the. rest of the temple; and they are of course equallyexposed to the spray and saline atmosphere : yet they appear per-fectly fresh and uninjured, while the granite has lost the whole ofits outer surface by gradual disintegration and exfoliation. I append two sketch plans to elucidate the above descriptions oflocality : but they have no pretensions to strict accuracy, being doneentirely from memory, months after I visited the place. * I have not been able to procure the papers of Mr. Babington or of Mr. WalterElliot on the subject: but of the four or five I have perused no one touches thispoint. f And I think that among the Aryan temples of Cashmere, is said to be a groupof four facing to all four cardinal Slu-Uh Plan of tk. Temple n -CT1 i P11KAM SHORE TEM) 1853.] Note on an ancient Inscription from Thdneswar. 673 Note on an ancient Inscription from Thdneswar. By Babtj Rajen-dralal Mittra, Librarian, Asiatic Society. Subjoined is the legend of a Sanscrita inscription lately found in theThdneswar district. Mr. Bowring, to whom the Society is indebtedfor facsimiles of this interesting record, states that it is engravedon a tablet of red sandstone in the temple of a follower of the Go-raknath persuasion, in the town of Pehewa, which is about fifteenmiles west of Thaneswar. Regarding the circumstance underwhich it was discovered, Mr. B. adds, I was marching from Pati-ala towards Thaneswar, and halted at Pehewa which is on the banksof the Saraswati river, and is a place of pilgrimage of some note,having been formerly known under the name of Prithudak. It isincluded in the limit of the sacred territory, known as the forty coss,that is, the distance betwe
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