JOURNAL 



OF 



THE ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



No. 21.— -March, 1834. 



I. — A Description, with Drawings, of the Ancient Stone Pillar at Alla- 

 habad called Bhim Sen's Gadd or Club, with accompanying copies of 

 four inscriptions engraven in different characters upon its surface. By 

 Lieut. T. S. Burt, Engineers. 



[Read at the meeting of the 26th December 1833.] 

 In compliance with your request made some time since, that I would 

 prepare copies of the characters engraven on an ancient pillar lying in 

 the Fort of Allahabad, I have much pleasure in forwarding them, 

 together with a geometrical and an explanatory drawing of the stone, 

 (Plate III. et. seq.), which shew the situations occupied by each of the 

 characters on the upper surface, as well as sections and elevations of 

 the capital, which lies detached near to the top of the shaft. 



The column tapers from the base to the capital from a diameter at 

 the former of three feet two and quarter inches, to two feet two inches 

 at the latter ; the circumference of the first mentioned part is about ten 

 feet one inch, and of the last, six feet six and a quarter inches. This was 

 about the size of the Delhi lath of Firoz Shah, which is stated to "be ten 

 feet four in circumference, and thirty-seven feet long, [see As. Res. vol. 

 VII. p. 178 ;] the shaft of this one being thirty-five, and its total length, 

 'including the base, forty-two feet seven inches. 



It appears to be a hard kind of red sandstone, nearly approaching to 



freestone, (and not granite,) and bears a kind of silvery bed in it, which 



accounts for its having peeled off at several places as hereafter noticed. 



The common legend of the natives states the pillar to be the gadd 



or staff of Bhim Sen. It may be hardly necessary to state, that Bhim 



