﻿FROM CHUNARGHUR TO YERTN AGOODUM. 105 



I had a fine profpeft of the town and fort of Ruttun- 

 pour, furrounded by a great number of tanks and 

 poois. Beyond them appeared the mountain of 

 Loffagur^ on which the Mahrattas formerly had a 

 poft; and the view was terminated by the blue moun- 

 tains towards Omercnntuc, To the fouthward was a 

 large lake, called Dooiapour Talaoio ; the embankment 

 of which was nearly two miles in length; and to the 

 "weftward,- about a mile diftant, was a little white 

 building, which they told me was the tomb of Moo- 

 fakhan^ a Patan mendicant, who had been killed by 

 the Goands, many years ago, while endeavouring to 

 make converts to the Mahommedan faith. 



I NOW defcended from the hill, and went to look at 

 a heap of-ruins; among which they pointed out to me 

 Rajah Rogonaut's old Mahal, or houfe, under 

 Goofapahar. It had been pulled to pieces for the fake 

 of the materials; and the walls had been much muti- 

 lated, in hopes of finding treafure. This building had 

 been conftructed on the old fite of Rutmnpour, which 

 then bore the name of Rajepour. On my return I ob- 

 ferved a building in the middle of a tank, erefcted on 

 thirty-fix arches of the gothic kind, upon which were 

 raifed twenty-four pyramids over the external piers; 

 and within them appeared a temple of a pyramidical 

 form, the entire height of which I computed to be 

 about fifty feet. They informed me it was a monu- 

 ment erected to the memory of one of the ancient 

 Rajahs of Rutiunpour ; and this object having raifed 

 my curiofity, I felt a Itrong defire to crofs the water 

 for a nearer infpe8ion of it; for, if there had been 

 any infcription upon it, it might probably have 

 thrown fome light upon the hiftory of this part of 

 India. I found, however, that the little excurfion I 

 had already made, had' begun to excite fome furprife 

 in the town ; which any further delay might have 

 increafed almoft to an alarm ; and as I depended a 

 good deal upon the aiTiilance of the Subadar of Cho~ 



teejgur^ 



