The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c9.11

c9.11

I. — An engraving borrowed from *Sur la frontière indo-afghane*, fig. 15, (or *Tour du monde*, Nov. 1899, p. 544); after a photograph taken by the author. The eminence, increased in height by the slow accumulation of the dust of the past, is still surrounded by a magnificent wall, now buried in the earth. The people of the country continue to maintain a connection between the village and the hill of Takht-i-Bahai, situated at a distance of less than a league to the north, which would represent respectively the capital and the « throne » of one and the same râjah (cf. p. 124).