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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2009
It was in the month of February 1824 that, while on leave from my regiment, and travelling about the province of Berar, I visited the extraordinary excavations of Adjunta, situated in lat. 20° 25′ N. and Ion. 76° 12′ E. These, though I believe hitherto undescribed, are as much deserving of a separate publication as the far-famed temples of Ellora; and though I spent only a few hours in their gloomy recesses, yet I saw enough to convince me that they are well worthy of a more minute investigation, and a lengthened sojourn amongst them.
page 362 note * From the Sanscrit word Ajayanti, meaning the difficult or impregnable pass.
page 365 note * The Jains and Buddhists only differed in regard to the history of the personages whom they deified: both sects reject the Vedas, or sacred books of the Hindus; worship one Deity, and several subordinate saints; both excavated temples; and, in India, were divided into the four castes of priests, soldiers, merchants, and labourers. In Ava the Buddhists are not divided into castes.
page 366 note * One of the Ellora caves is a Jain temple; the rest are Brahminical.
page 367 note * See the accompanying plate, fig. 1.
page 367 note † The Burmans have likewise two languages, a sacred and a vernacular. The character of the former is square, like the Sanscrit, Hebrew, and Chinese; that of the latter is circular. While at Ava I saw some of the sacred books with gold leaves, but they are commonly made of ivory.
page 368 note * Painted sticks, to which are attached the tails of the Thibet cow; used to drive away flies.
page 368 note † See the accompanying plate, fig. 2.
page 369 note * Rather the “architect.” “He whose work is the universe.” The Vulcan of the Hindus.
page 369 note † See the accompanying plate, fig. 3.