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¹ In the Text volume of Part I (p. 2) I assigned Cave X on the authority of Fergusson (Cave Temples of India, pp. 285-7) to the second century A.D., but recently the inscriptions of Cave X have been carefully studied by Prof. Lüders, who on palaeographic grounds is definitely of opinion that the painted inscription belongs to the middle of the second century B.C., while the inscription of the façade is still earlier, va, pu, gha, and kha, showing Aśokan forms.