BHIL U-G YWON—BHIL WAR A.
394
There
ing a relic
is
before Asoka’s time
Sanchi tope
no reason to suppose that any stupas were raised
(b.c. 250), so that the earliest possible
some precision. the same platform (known as Xos. 2 and is
Two
fixed with
Mr. Fergusson’s valuable work
undoubted
3) contain relics of
which the reader
historical character, for a description of
date of the
of the smaller topes on
{loc. cit.).
Much
is
referred to
been done
injury has
to these relics by the reckless explorations of archaeologists, but their restoration has been carefully undertaken,
and carried out
in a great
measure. ‘
Besides the group at Sanchi,’ continued Mr. Fergusson,
prises six or seven topes, there
Two
group of eight topes. in square courtyards
‘
which com-
at Sonari, 6 miles distant, another
is
of these are important structures, enclosed
and one of them has yielded numerous
the explorer.
At Satdhara,
has yielded no
relics.
relics to
3 miles farther on, is a great tope 101 feet in diameter, which, like that at Sanchi, seems to have been a stupa and
No.
2,
however, though only 24 feet in diameter, and Moggalana, like No. 3 at
was found
to contain relics of Sariputra
Sanchi.
Besides these there are several others,
much
The most numerous
ruined.
Bhojpur, together
but No.
all
group, however,
small and very is
situated
at
7 miles from Sanchi, where 37 distinct topes are grouped on various platforms. The largest is 66 feet in diameter
2 is
described as one of the most perfect in the neighbourhood,
and, like several others in this group, one which contained important
At Andhar, about
relics.
5 miles
west of Bhojpur,
three small but very interesting topes. this
makes up about
is
a fine group of
AVith those above enumerated,
and separate topes in this small was not one of the most important in India in point of view, and consequently was probably surpassed by sixty distinct
district, Avhich certainly
a religious
many, not only
in the
number but
in the
splendour of their religious
edifices.’
Mr. Fergusson assigns the topes to the three centuries and a half between 250 b.c. and the first century of our era.
—
Bhllu-Gywon. Island Burma See Bilu-Gv'won. Bhllwara {Bheelwara .
—
).
at
—A
the
mouth of
the
Salwi'n river, British
tract of countr}’ in Central India
occupied
by a collection of Native States (known as the Bhil or Bhopdwar Agency), under the political superintendence of the Governor-General’s Agent for Central India. Surrounded on all sides by Native States of Central India, principally those of Holkar and Sindhia, Bhilwara consists chiefly of the wild hilly tracts of the Vindhya range north of the Narbada (Nerbudda) river, inhabited principally by Bhi'ls. It includes the following 17 States, together with certain outlying portions of Indore
—
and Gwalior; Dh.r, B.^khtgarh, Jhabua, Ali-Rajpur, Jobat, Katiwara, Rataxmal, Mathwar, Dahi, Nimkhera, Bara-Barkhera,
