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¹ Beal, ii, 228–30; Watters, ii, 228–33. See remarks by Hultzsch, *Ind. Ant.*, xviii, 242. What has happened to the ruins of the Hindu and Buddhist buildings anterior to the seventh century? It seems tolerably certain that some of them were converted at a later date to Brahmanical use. This is clearly the case with the Buddhist apsidal chaitya hall at Chazarla in Guntūr District, converted into a Saiva temple of late Pallava style (*A. S. Ann. Rep. S. Circle, 1917–18*, p. 35). See ‘Bouddha Vestiges in Kānchīpura’, by T. A. Gopinatha Rao, M.A., Trivandrum (*Ind. Ant.*, 1915, pp. 127–9) with plates. In twelve hours the author discovered five images of Buddha, two being inside the Kamākshi Temple, which probably occupies the site of a Buddhist Tārā temple, the image inside at A being 7′ 10″, including pedestal, which is not likely to have been moved far. All five images are of considerable size. See also Wilson in Introduction to Mackenzie Coll. (ed. 1882), p. 40.