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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
The bronze images and fragments figured in the accompanying plates are a few specimens taken from a large collection now lying at Bezwada, all of which were found, some time before the year 1870, by some labourers employed under the Public Works Department of the Madras Presidency while excavating a canal at a place called Buddhapād, or Buddhavāni, about 20 miles westwards from the right bank of the river Kṛiṇhnā, and 30 miles from the nearest mouth of its delta.
page 622 note 1 These remarks will in a few years be considered obsolete, since the love of manly exercises appears to be growing amongst the youth of India.—R. S.
page 624 note 1 If the “Wango” of the Mahāwanso be the same as Vengi, this kingdom though small in extent boasted of high antiquity, since, according to that chronicle, Suppadevi, grandmother of Vijaya, the first sovereign of Ceylon, was a princess of this house. The name of the ruling dynasty was Sālaṅkāyana.
page 627 note 1 I was at Bezwada, and on report being made to me that a stone face had been seen by a cooly in a channel worn in the hillside after heavy rains, I went to the spot and unearthed the two statues.—R. S.
page 630 note 1 See Mr. Rea's “South Indian Buddhist Antiquities,” vol. xv of the new Imperial series of the Archæological Survey of India (Southern India, vol. vi). The book is admirably prepared, and is a model of what such reports ought to be.
page 630 note 2 Epigraphia Indica, vol. ii, p. 327—Dr. Bühler's article.
page 630 note 3 It is mutilated, and Dr. Bühler writes: “Nothing can be said regarding the contents of this inscription, except that it mentions relics of Buddha.” (Epigraphia Indica, ii, p. 328.)
page 633 note 1 Mr. Rea thinks that the hollow may have been left “as a receptacle for fixing a sweep during the progress of building to guide the correct laying of the circular rings of brickwork.”
page 634 note 1 Perhaps really marble.
page 634 note 2 Dr. Burgess conjectures (Epigraphia Indica, vol. ii, Preface) that the disturbance of the inner caskets had probably been caused by the accidental shaking of the whole by the workmen who originally placed them in position, and this seems the most reasonable supposition.