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country. During his tour in North and South Behar (1880-81), 
Mr. Garrick learnt from the people. in the village near the 
contrary, exhibits the protruding tongue as well as the teeth 
perfectly, Mr. Garrick could not conceive what grounds there 
was for such a tradition. He thought it ‘‘one of the many 
idle tales so apt to mislead the enquirer by the apparent 
sincerity with which they are persisted in’** 
The story would seem to be a reminiscence of the bull- 
pillar dug up recently at Rampurva at a distance of 900 feet 
pillars would have occurred in much more recent times than 
has been concluded.2 The persistence, too, of the tradition 
about acts of vandalism committed by Europeans or Muham- 
madans, and the fact that the pillar of Navandgarh bears 
evident traces of violence, would lead us to conclude that the 
pillar at Lauriya-Araraj was tampered with in almost modern 
times. The great depth to which the Rampurva pillars had 
sunk makes it, of course, more difficult to conclude the same 
in their case. 
1 Cf. Ibid., XVI, pp. 92, 93. 
2 Cf. Archeol. Surv. of India, Annual Report of 1907-08, p. 188. 
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