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Copy of a Letter addressed to the Right Hon. Sir Alexander Johnston, Vice-President of the Royal Asiatic Society, by Percival B. Lord, Esq. of the Hon. East India Company's Medical Establishment, Bombay

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2011

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1836

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* Which it enters not far from Lunawarra.

* A gentleman to whom I mentioned this, told me his informant mentioned six weeks as the time required.

Pronounced like impinge. This is the nearest attempt I can make at representing the name of this material, of which they had unfortunately no specimen. Is it possible they could have meant the corundum stone, which, by the way, is to be found in the Rajpeepley Hills, and which, consisting in a great measure of alnmen, might be supposed to yield a porcelainous sort of composition, as the quartzose sand, from the silica of which it is composed, would incline towards a vitreous? Perhaps I may strengthen this conjecture by adding, that they explained the coringe to be a kind of gravel capable of being reduced to a very fine powder; and which, they said, was always brought in vessels coming from Baroach.

* I know little or nothing of Hindú mythology; so I have merely described what I saw, without attempting to affix names. But it strikes me, that a person accidentally lighting on this temple, and applying to it the principles laid down by Erskine in his paper on cave temples, would undoubtedly pronounce it to be Buddhistic. It was shewn to me as Jain.