The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c21.62

c21.62

These stately buildings have all vanished, and their remains lie buried for the most part beyond hope of recovery deep below the silt of the Ganges and Sōn rivers, overlaid by the East India Railway, the city of Patna, and the civil station of Bankipore. The excavations in progress have already revealed enough to attest the substantial truth of the pilgrim’s enthusiastic description, and I myself have seen two huge and finely carved sandstone capitals—one with the acanthus-leaf ornament—dug up near Bankipore.