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An unbound notebook of notes, sketches and drawings taken by Walter West during his visit to the Kanheri Caves on the 27th and 28th of December 1870. The notebook is comprised of 36 pages, with an additional 12 smaller inserted pages. The notes were taken to complete the information which had previously obtained regrading the facades, columns, pilasters and stūpas. Also included is W. West's travel itinerary and a brief summary of his stay at the Caves.

A continuation from notebook 'Kanheri Cave I to XXI', offering descriptive accounts from Cave No. 21 to No. 38.

This folder contains two paper files with subtitles, "Result of Excavations in Cave 13" and "Descriptions of some of the Kanheri Topes".

Topographic plan of Kanheri Hill Cave Complex in pencil, ink, and ink wash on paper, with some handwritten annotations. The scale is 300 ft to an inch. A larger version of this plan was published April 1860 in the Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.

Detailed hand drawn ink and ink wash grouped floor plans for Caves No. 1 - No. 4 over a pencil drawn grid, including some surrounding topographic details. Scale is 30 ft. to an inch.

Hand drawn pencil, ink and ink wash grouped floor plans of Caves No. 11 - No. 15 and No. 79 - No. 84, including some surrounding topographic details. Scale is 30 ft. to an inch.

Unfinished hand drawn pencil and ink grouped floor plans of Cave No. 16 - No. 21 and No. 85 - 87 over a pencil drawn grid, including some rudimentary surrounding topographic details.

Hand drawn ink and ink wash grouped floor plans of Caves No. 6 - No. 10 and Cave No. 78, including some surrounding topographic details and short hand notes on the reverse.

Description: Loose folios handwritten in ink including a newspaper cutting with inscription written on it. Identified as part of West 56 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents:

• 1 folio titled "Kanheri Pahlavi Inscriptions, dates & names"
• 4 folios beginning with the title "Pahlavi inscriptions from Kanheri"
• Some inscriptions drawn on a Times of India article
• folio with trace of "Pahlavi inscription on flat space between 2 groups of sculptures on stone from sculptured [dayob] at Kanheri"
• 2 folios with copies of different inscriptions
• 2 folios with "Inscriptions mentioned by Auquetil"

Hand drawn ink floor plan of Caves No. 12 and No. 13 on paper. Scale is 15 ft. to an inch. This drawing was presented to the Bombay [Mumbai] Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society in October 1961 and a copy was published in their journal.