70 Coins and Antiquities from KJioJcJirakote. [April, 



another, as, if at the time Rohtak was inhabited, there was a fort at Kho- 

 khrakote, it is very probable that it must have been dismantled and the 

 materials removed to Rohtak. 



" To the west of Rohtak lies the town of Lalpur, which is said to have 

 been founded by Lalchand Seth a millionaire, and was mostly occupied by 

 money-dealers (Mahajans) and Brahmans, with a small number of Khatries. 



" In Sambat 1772 this town had succumbed to an overflowing of a branch 

 river named " Chomang", owing to the inundation of the Jamna river. 

 The marks as to the existence of the former are still visible in the neigh- 

 bourhood of maiizas Sanghi and Kheri Ballab, by the presence of a few 

 bridges and the uneven ground on which it flowed. The present Gohana 

 canal which runs towards this ruined town of Lalpur, into the Rohtak 

 Pargana, has also been constructed on the bed of the said river. 



" Large bricks are dug out from the ruined buildings of this town and 

 used in building others at Rohtak. 



"With a view to discover objects of antiquity, the Commissioner of the 

 Division and Mr. Wood, Deputy Commissioner, in September or October 

 1879, inspected these ruined towns and proposed to dig the mound, close to 

 the remains of the old fort, called " Nawabi tila" by the residents of Rohtak, 

 by reason of its being supposed to be the site on which the palaces of the 

 Nawabs were formerly situated, and also on account of its being the highest 

 of all the mounds in this ruinous tract. 



" In November 1879, the District Committee sanctioned an expenditure 

 for the digging of this mound. It was first dug to a depth of 8 or 10 feet 

 below the surface, when a large quantity of earth, which seemed as if it had 

 been thrown in, was dug out, and then ruined walls were disclosed and a 

 quantity of interesting relics, such as pieces of earthen vessels, bones, 

 and rusty iron, as also a few shells. At about 15 feet lower down, the foun- 

 dations of the walls were at an end, and again earth as above noted was 

 dug out. The diggings continued for 7 or 8 feet, when a second set of 

 ruined. walls was discovered and a small room which contained some 

 decayed jawar grain which on being touched at once became dust. This, 

 and an image which, from being disfigured by decay, could not be made out, 

 but presumably of a deity, the face being very much like the representation 

 of Buddha, were found amongst debris and earth. -The foundations of the 

 second set of walls having ended at a depth of about 6 or 7 feet, the 

 remains of a third set of walls appeared at about a depth of 38 feet, and 

 when dug to about 6 feet, a small earthen pot, with the mouth covered over 

 with mud, containing some small coins, was found. On the evening of 3rd 

 January 1881, these coins with other relics, shells &c.,that were discovered 

 from the mound in question at Khokhrakote, were produced before His 

 Honor the Lieutenant-Governor when encamped at Rohtak. His Honor 



