As the description of this old Buddhist monument forms the subject of a separate volume I only allude to it now for the purpose of indicating the site of the lofty crest of Ldl Pandr or the Red Hill " at the souteast foot of which the sttipa is situated. [...] A portion of one of the pillars was found as well as several pieces of the cusped arch of the entrance and a single piece of the canopy of the enshrined statue. [...] From the late Minister of the Uchahara State I learned that the Parihdr chiefship was older than that of the Chandels of Mahoba as well as that of the Bcighels of Rewa According to his belief it formerly included Mahoba and all the country to the north as far as the Ghats and Bilhari on the south and extended to Mau-Mahewa on the west and on the east coprised most of the country now held [...] 3.— Date of the Morvi coppeplate in the year 585 of the Gupta era on the 5th Phillgun sudi at the time of a solar eclipse.' 4.—The name of the 12-year cycle of Jupiter in five different inscriptions added to the date of the Gupta era. [...] Accepting this period of 60 years as covering the whole of Dhruvabhata's possible reign we have now to find some one year within its limit which taken as the starting-point of the Gupta era will fulfil the other two conditions of the weeday in Budha Gupta's inscription of 165 and of the solar eclipse of the Morvi inscription in 585 of the era This I have fon& in the year 195 A. D. which w
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