1896.] C. J. Rodgevs— Report on the Sangla Tihha. 83 



20,000 bricks wliicli are not sufficient for a structure of any size and 

 could never have been sufficient to surround a town built round tliG 

 rock. No place exists near Sangla or in the far off neiglibourliood 

 to which bricks could have been removed in any quantity. In the 

 new colony of Jahur all the buildings are of mud. 



There were no mud houses in Sangla or its vicinity. No mud 

 walls surrounded the place, for, mud houses and mud walls when 

 thrown down leave unsightly heaps which can never be removed, 

 especially in a country witli so small a rainfall as the Bar has. There 

 are- "no signs of such mound.-!. Even the small mound at Mundapntnra 

 is not one of tliis kind. It is a small projecting rock, and a heap of 

 rocky debris. 



There is nothing noio therefore of any antiquity in Sangla or its 

 neighbourhood except the loell. This has been beautifully restored by 

 the Engineers of the Canal by having its broken masonry courses 

 replaced and a small parapet erected at the top. Its water is 79 ft. 

 from the wall top in spite of the well being actually in the bank of the 

 canal. One xoell couhl have supplied hut a small poprdation with water. 

 The swamp or seasonal lake must have dried up very soon after the 

 rains. It had been long quite dry when I visited it on the last day of 

 October. 



From all this it will be see-n (1) that Sangla may have been a small' 

 village near the hill or rock. (2) It may have had a small temple or a 

 few houses of brich, but they were more probably of reeds. (5) The 

 people used earthen vessels. (4) There were no large buildings or 

 bazaars. (5) There ivere no fortifications. {6} There loere no buildings 

 of stone. 



We know that everything strange in Nature in India has been 

 worshipped, and has had, and has now in these days of modern 

 enlightenment, its resident faqirs who have their followers and depen- 

 dents, and hence small communities exist in these places. Tlie rocks 

 at Sangla are a strange phenomenon. They must have attracted faqirs 

 in olden times. Before the canal was open, however, there was not 

 a house near the rock and the only ones now are those connected with 

 the brick kilu and the Canal Chowki nearly a mile to the north of 

 the hill. 



Therefore my decision is that there is nothing voiv on the roeh or in 

 its neighbourhood of any Historical importance whatever. There is nothing 

 either in the i-ock, for, it is not a rock with fissures or caverns. The 

 stone of which it is composed may be used for ballast or for any other 

 purpose for which it may be requii^ed. 



There is a place called Sangala mentioned as having been besieged 



