﻿III. 



MEMORANDUMS 

 CONCERNING JN OLD BUILDING 



In the Hadjipore District, near the Gunduc River, &c. 



BY MR. REUBEN BURROW. 



THE pyramids oi Egypt, as well as those lately- 

 discovered in Ireland (and probably too the 

 Tower of Babel) seem to have been intended for 

 nothing more ban images of Mahadeo, 



Two of the Sakkard pyramids described by Nor- 

 den, are, like many of the small ones, usually built of 

 mud in the villages of Beiigal. One of the pyramids 

 of Dashour, drawn by Pocock, is nearly similar to that 

 I am going to mention, except in the acuteness of 

 the angle. Most of the Pagodas of the Carnatic are 

 either complete or truncated pyramids ; and an old 

 stone-builciing without any cavity, which 1 saw in 

 Yatnheah, near the Catabeda river, on the Arracan 

 coast, differed so little from a pyramid, that 1 did not 

 suspect it was meant for the image of Seeva, till I was 

 told it by the natives. 



The largest building of the kind which I have yet 

 seen in India, is about two days journey up the Gun- 

 duc river, near a place called Kessereah : it goes by the 

 name of Bheetn Sains Dewry , but seems evidently 

 intended for the well-known image of Mahadeo ; hav- 

 ing originally been a cylinder placed upon the frusr 



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