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buildings were built of squared blocks of sandstone 3 feet by 14. 
Some part of the walls are still standing, but from the irregularity 
of the upper courses they must have been rebuilt, so that little 
remains to show what the structures original were 
Nos. 121 and 122.—Some large figures are collected near the 
little modern temple, which are beautifully carved, and seem repre- 
sentatives of Surya. Some slabs of sandstone are collected in the 
same place which no doubt formed part of a doorway, and executed 
in the very best manner. They consist of several figures enclosed 
in scrolls of lotus stem in a most beautiful and artistic manner. 
No. 123.—An inscription let into the wall of the little temple is 
quite modern, but I am convinced this stone had an older inscrip- 
tion which must have been obliterated to receive the modern one. 
Wo. 124.—This is a view of the rock in which the ‘ Karna Chow- 
par’ cave, at Burrahur, has been excavated, and showing the 
general appearance from the east of the immense granite block in 
which the cave has been excavated, and also the scarped rock to 
the south. 
Wo. 125.—Is a sculptured slab with a representation of the nine 
Avatars let into the wall of the porch of the temple at Konch. 
Wo. 126.—Is a curious slab with some carved figures, and sur- 
mounted by some singular emblems with an inscription in Sanscrit 
underneath: unfortunately the inscription is too much worn to be 
decipherable. The figures represent a seated figure in the centre, 
something like a Budh, with male and female figures on either 
side. The emblems above are an open hand with a rosette in the 
palm ; the emblems of the sun and moon on either side. There are 
three specimens of this emblematical stone in this district; the 
present one is from the banks of the large tank at Madinpore on 
the grand trunk road twenty-four miles west from Sherghati, 
near the temple of Oonga; the other one is under a tree near that 
temple ; and the third is on the temple of Gajadhur at Gya. All 
of these stones are nearly similar, and the stone is the same in each 
case, viz., a soft soapstone, and in consequence the inscription is 
not readable in either of them. From the style of workmanship 
and the peculiar selection of this soft stone, it is probable that 
these stones are the work of a different race of people from the 
