6 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. | January, 1909. 
Sultanganj “in the space between the mart and the railway 
basaltic images discovered at this place were even inscribed with 
the Gupta character of the third and fourth centuries, whereas the 
Vikramasila Vihdra was not founded till the eighth century of 
the Christian era.2 By Sultanganj he evidently means the 
hill in the midst of the river Ganges upon which the terple of 
Gaibinatha Mahadeva is situated. But this identification is also 
open to objections on many grounds. Vikramasilé Sanghdérama, 
as I have stated, was a Buddhist monastery situated on a hill on 
the right bank of the Ganges with space enough for holding a 
gathering of many thousands of people. Any identification, 
therefore, before it can be pronounced to be correct, must satisfy 
all these conditions. The hill, thongh situated in front of Sul- 
also called Janghira—the Zanghera of Mr. Montgomery Mar- 
i in the expressive lanvuage of Mr. Martin, 
‘of several masses of grey granite, heaped one upon the other in 
an irregular manner, forming ledges and terraces, which have 
ecome the sites of numerous temples.’ Cliffs and crags 
project upwards from the sides in graceful confusion, and all 
these are car 
the name of the hill or any village about this place, Janghira 
r 
to Dr, Rajendralala Mitra,’ which name has got no connection 
whatever with the emperor Jahangir as it has been supposed by 
some writers. Tlien, again, the JanghirAé or Gaibindtha hill is 
not situated on the right bank of the Ganges, but the river flows 
by the both sides of it. No doubt in ancient time it was con- 
nected with the mainland by an isthmus of rock, but the river 
: ar this connection and make the hill 
isolated long before the erection of the Vikramasil4 vihdra was 
! On the Buddhist Remains of Saltangunj by Dr. Rajendralala Mitra. 
2 Bholanauth Chunder’s Travels of a Hindoo, vol. i, p. 108 et. seq. 
Montgomery Martin’s Indian Empire, vol. iii. 
+ Arch. Survey, Reports, vol xiv, p 20. ; 
5 Journ. Asia. Soc. Bengal, 1883, p. 175, note :—On the Temples of Deoghar. 
