No. 1 AN INSCRIBED POT AND OTHER BUDDHIST REMAINS IN SALIHUNDAM
T. N. RAMACHANDRAN
The latest accessions to our knowledge of the schools of Buddhist art, architecture and iconography in general and of South Indian epigraphy in particular have been contributed by the discovery in Аndhra-dещa, of a number of Buddhist sculptures, stуpas or mahаchaityaa, chaityas or prayer-cells or halls and vihаras or monasteries, dug up at Nаgаrjunakoндa in the Guntur District, Kаpavaram and Аduввu in the East Godavari District, and Sаlihuндаm, [A brief reference to the finds at Sаlihuндаm was made by the writer in his Presidential address to the Archaeology Section of the 13th Session of the All-India Oriental Conference, October 1946, p. 14 and in his address at the Silver Jubilee Session of the Andhra Historical Research Society, Rajahmundry, April 1948, p. 31. [Mr. A.H. Longhurst has described the Buddhist ruins of Sаlihuндаm in the Annual Report of the Archaeological Department, Southern Circle, Madras, for the-year 1919-20, pp. 34-38. The site has already yielded some inscriptions of about the 7th or 8th century A.C. (Nos. 338-342 of the Madras Epigraphical collection of 1919). The caskets, etc., described in the present article are, however, subsequent discoveries.-Ed.]] Щaкkarаm and Rаmatиrtham in the Vizagapatam District.[Sаlihuндаm is now included in the Щrиkаkulam (Chicacole) Taluk of the district of the same name.] On the hill at Sаlihuндаm, overlooking the river Vaмщadhаrа and the Bay of Bengal, 3 miles further down, was discovered a curious but very interesting monastic orientation (plates I and II) with a high apsidal chaitya on the summit of the hill crowning the hill, as it were (plate I-c), a circular or wheel-like mahаchaitya behind it with bricks laid flat on its entire surface instead of the usual, spokes and hub arrangement that one meets with in the Аndhra stуpas (plates I-a, b, plate III-a), and with the regular monastery and smaller chaityas, two of them Buddha-chaityas and votive stуpas scattered on the sides and slopes of the
hill (plate II).

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Haмkuda(or de)yika-rаттavаlaka-vochchiyаna[м] Kaттahаrаma.