Annual Report of the Director-General of Archaeology in India. 1918-19

Page writes " is the re-painting of the domed interior and of the exterior walls of the shrine of Nizamu-d-Din Aulia the faded designs and patterns remaining from the last occasion of its embellishment in the time of Muhammad Shah being carefully followed in the new work as far as feasible. [...] Among the main achievements of the year at Taxila were the conservation involving much underpinning and waterproofing of the walls of four more blocks of buildings fronting the High Street in the Parthiacity of Sirkap ; the repair of the berm around the great Dharmarajika $tupa and the levelling and dressing of the site on which this monument stands ; the relaying of the floor in the main co [...] Progress has %lso been made in the work of conserving the two palaces at Chandragiri in the Chittoor District (Plate V) where the domes of the king's palace are to be replastered and the broken parapets restored while a dwarf wall with intermediate pillars is to be constructed on the Queen's palace the balconies repaired and the cut-stone work of the parapet wall and the balcony to be restor [...] In the conservation of this building the principal items have been the clearance of the accumulated heaps of debris the marking of the outline of the missing wing of the monument the underpinning of dangerous masonry the levelling and draining of the inner courtyard and the excavation and laying out of the outside portion of the site in large turfed courts intersected by neat muram paths. [...] accomplished by me this year comprised the clearance and levelling of the ground to the north-west of the Great Stupa ; the restoration of the soutwest quadrant of the Great Stupa involving a further 2 500 cubic feet new masonry ; the reconstruction of the carved stone balustrades on the stairway and berm (of which about half was completed—cf.