Archæological Survey of India. Reports of a Tour in Bundelkhand and Rewa in 1883-84; and of a Tour in Rewa Bundelkhand Malwa and Gwalior in 1884-85

In fact it may have been the death of the great Gupta prince that led to the occupation of this part' of the country by the king of Vakátaka A still older inscription was afterwards found in a cave near the top of the Ginja hill about 40 miles to the south-west of AllaWabad. [...] These were the roccave of the venomous serpent and the ancient brick-chamber in which the famous Bodhisatwa Vasubandhu composed his treatise named the Vidyd-mdtra-siddhi-sluistra for the rfutation of the doctrine of the Hinayilna. [...] Of late years the small town of Sitapur situated also on the /Left bank of the Paisuni River i mile to the north of Kamta has rivalled the fame of the holy Chitra-kuta. [...] The positions of the antiquities of Rusin are all marked in the accompanying map by the letters A B C D E F. A.—On the side of the road at the foot of the hill and to the north of the town there are several Sati pillars With a large standing female figure holding a child in her left arm and several fragments including a four-bracket capital with human figures on the faces and smaller fig [...] In the Samvat year 1466 on Saturday the 7th day of the waking moon of Chaitra (Saturday 23rd March 1409 A. D.) the king's slave in Raja-vasini (the royal residence of Paramardi lord of the earth \\ hose servant was Jai Pala Samogha the son of Sura Pala).1" I take the name of Paramardi to refer to the Chandel king of two centuries earlier than the date of the inscription.