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on the banks of the river, and in the most prominent sites within 
the city, but they, I believe, are restricted to certain portions of it. 
Photographs Nos. 15 and 16 are some of their houses along the 
banks of the Fulgo, many of them five and six stories high and 
very old. 
Nos. 17 and 18.—To the south of the town the range of hills 
which surrounds the town ends in a conical hill called Brahmajoni, 
which is considered of great sanctity. There is a temple on the 
summit dedicated to the sakti or female energy of Brahma, hence 
the name. It is approached by a flight of stone steps leading up 
from below. The hill itself is 450 feet high, and is a prominent 
object in approaching Gya from every direction. It is one of the 
principal places which must be visited by the pilgrims who come to 
perform the ceremony of Pind. 
Nos. 19 and 20.—Another of the principal places of pilgrimage 
is the Suruj Kund and temple. This is only a short distance 
from the Vishnu Pad. The temple is one of the oldest in Gya, and 
evidently belongs to Buddhist times. Inside there is a valuable 
inscription dated in the era of Buddha’s death or Nirvan, which is 
of great value, as fixing the date of that event. The vestibule is 
formed of two double rows of pillars ten feet in height, and five 
pillars in each row. A great number of mutilated statues are let 
into the walls on either side. 
Wo. 21.—Another place which must be visited by all pilgrims is 
the tank, or Kund Petta Mahaswar. The present buildings are 
quite modern, but a great number of Buddhist statues are collected 
in and around them. 
Nos. 22 and 23.—The final ceremony of Pind is performed at the 
Achyber temple which is situated near the foot of the Brahmajoni 
hill and close to the Rukmini tank. 
No. 24.—Gives the relative positions. The Achyber temple ie 
very old, and must have been a monastery chapel, as the present 
buildings, although mostly rebuilt and altered, seem to have been 
originally a Buddhist monastery. 
Nos. 25, 26, 27, and 28.—Higher up the same hill, which runs 
down to the Rukmini tank, there is an old temple much in the same 
style as the temple at Budh Gya called Mungla Deva, but of 
