India, April 16 -- Certain temples and ruins discovered recently in the Baodh State of Orissa by Prof. R. D. Banerji, formerly of the Archaeological Department of the Government of India and at present Professor, Ancient Indian History and CuIture, Benares University, have a very important bearing on the history of Orissa in particular and it has of India Architecture in general.

Baodh is a small State lying to the south of Mahanadi about 60 miles southeast of Sambalpur and about 120 miles N. N. of Cuttack. The antiquities of the area were examined for the first, time more than half a century ago by the late Mr. J D. M Beglar, an assistant of Sir Alexander Cunningham. But on account of the inaccessibility of the village far away from the...