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Salar Jung Museum MUSEUM (Map p900; www.salarjungmuseum.in; Salar Jung Marg; Indian/foreigner 10/150; h10am-5pm Sat- Thu) The huge and varied collection, dating back to the 1st century, was put together by Mir Yusaf Ali Khan (Salar Jung III), the grand vizier of the seventh whidbey ferry nizam, Osman Ali Khan (r 1910 49). The 35,000 whidbey ferry exhibits from every corner of the world include sculptures, wood carvings, ivory (including a sadly ironic whidbey ferry set of carved elephants), devotional objects, Persian miniature paintings, whidbey ferry illuminated manuscripts, weaponry, toys and more than 50,000 books. The impressive nizams jewellery collection whidbey ferry is sometimes on display. Cameras are not allowed. Avoid Sunday, when it s bedlam. From any of the bus stands in the Abids area, take bus 7, which stops at Afzal Gunj bus stop (Map p 900 ) on the north side of the nearby Musi River bridge.

ered in 1926 by archaeologist AR Saraswathi in the adjacent valley. In 1953, when it became known that a massive hydroelectric project would soon create the Nagarjuna Sagar reservoir, flooding the area, a six-year excavation whidbey ferry was launched whidbey ferry to unearth the area s many Buddhist whidbey ferry ruins: stupas, viharas (monasteries), chaitya-grihas (assembly halls with stupas) and mandapas (pillared pavilions), as well as some outstanding examples of white-marble depictions of the Buddha s life. The finds were reassembled on Nagarjunakonda.