88 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, [April, 1911. 
It would seem that there was an ancient monument here 
. 
The priests have since succeeded in unearthing another 
fragment of the inscribed stone, and it is far more important 
than the one previously found, inasmuch as it gives the date 
of the monument in which the engraved stone had been erected. 
This inscription, like that of the stone previously dis- 
covered, is in Sanskrit in the Sarada character and of the same 
style and purport. I give below a hand copy of it :— 
TUT 9Ee alae aga” ea) 
CH: Fal VRB Era yy ae 
qaaag [fe] (2. fama d—cae 
Wfsa atasnfa.............. a 
It says by way cg sanctity of the shrine that one is 
ere i i 
@ snake is of its old skin, and 
3. It ma 
mention of the legend relating to the place. The Mahatmya 
of this pilgrimage says that once Visnu and Brahma had a 
was superior to the other. At 
d go to Siva and ask him 
Ps 
pace be = 
«Lavina keep aoaleaee ian 
St ae re 
ete Wary eee ao Nemeth oe 
SST fn eo eee 
