100 V. A. Smitli and W. Hooy — Buddhist Sutras. [JnLY. 



She is believed to be the ghost of a Brahman girl buried alive in the 

 foundations to protect a golden treasure. 



A well-known myth is attached to the Barka Tal. Once upon a 

 time, whenever* any man came to the city, and wanted food and utensils 

 in which to cook it, the dharm naiika, or ' boat of merit,' rose to the 

 surface of the water, and supplied his needs with provisions and golden 

 vessels. So long as the golden vessels were duly returned, the boat 

 sank, and disappeared until again called for. But OTie day a covetous 

 man stole the golden vessels, and since that day the mystic boat has 

 been no more seen.i 



Some mouths ago the local zemindar, who was building indigo 

 vats, emjDloyed men to collect all the loose bricks which they could find. 

 When the surface supply failed, the workmen began to dig in the Manjh- 

 ratiya mound, and coming to a masonry floor, they broke into a 

 chamber below, and extracted a number of bricks. Pandit Ramgharib" 

 Caube, who is a resident of Gopalpur, noticed that one of the bricks 

 so extracted was inscribed, and, having obtained it from the workmen, 

 sent it to Mr. V. A. Smith. 



Shortly afterwards (in January 1896) Dr. Hoey visited the spot, and 

 succeeded in recovering the other inscribed bricks now submitted. 



Dr. Hoey is of opinion that the masonry floor broken through by 

 the labourers belonged to some comparatively modern building erected 

 on the mound. He caused the hole to be re-opened and found that the 

 inscribed bricks had been taken out of a small chamber about eight 

 feet square and about eight feet below the surface, which was built of 

 huge bricks, about a foot and a half long, and some three inches thick. 

 The inscribed bricks are said to have rested on a sort of pedestal, or 

 vedi, made of brick, wnich was destroyed for the sake of the material. 

 On a ledge in the chamber Dr. Hoey himself found a small earthen- ware 

 saucer containing eleven copper coins, which had evidently been un- 

 disturbed since they were deposited. 



The coins belong to the reigns of the great Kusan kings, Hima Kad- 

 phises, Kaniska, and Huviska, and therefore i-ange in date from about A.D. 

 40 to about A.D. 150, according to the chronology generally accepted. 

 They are all of well-known types, and include examples of the 

 three leading forms of obverse used by Huviska, namely the elepliant- 

 rider, the throned king, and the king squatted cross-legged. One coin 

 belongs to the 'Cock and Ball ' Mitra series associated with Ayodhya. 

 The obverse, with bull to left, and the legend Ayu Mitrasa is distinct. 

 The reverse, which should show the cock and palm-tree, is defaced.* 



We now proceed to describe the bricks. 



1 A similar legend attaches to the Kawwal Dih tank at GSrakhpur. 

 S These Ayu Mitrasa coins, which were described by Carlleyle for the first time 

 in 1880 (i7. A. S. B., Ft. I, "Vol. XLIX, p. 27), are ascribed by Cunningham {Coins 



