OF

INDIA.

FOUR REPORTS

MADE DURING THE YEARS

1862-63-64-65,

BY

ALEXANDER CUNNINGHAM, c. s. I.,

MAJOR-GENERAL, ROYAL ENGINEERS (BENGAL RETIRED):

DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE ARCHEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA:
MEMBER, ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY: HON. MEMBER, BENGAL ASIATIC SOCIETY:
MEMBER, ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE :

MEMBER, NUMISMATIC SOCIETY.

VOLUME II.

"What is aimed at is an accurate description, illustrated by plans, measurements,
drawings or photographs, and by copies of inscriptions, of such remains as most
deserve notice, with the history of them so far as it may be traceable, and a record
of the traditions that are preserved regarding them." LORD CANNING.

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"What the learned world demand of us in India is to be quite certain of our
data, to place the monumental record before them exactly as it now exists, and to
interpret it faithfully and literally." JAMES PRINSEP.

Bengal Asiatic Society's Journal, 1838, p. 227.

SIMLA:

PRINTED AT THE GOVERNMENT CENTRAL PRESS.

1871.