106 



Buddhist Remains near Mynpoorie. 



[No. 2, 



Fte. 3. 



10" 



Fig. 4. 



8' 



7J" thick. 



The next illustration was a finial 

 corner ornament. (Fig. 3.) The cutting 

 was very sharply done, and I found 

 fragments of many other such bricks. 



Fine kunkur blocks are rare here, and stone 

 is quite unknown, hence the use of brick. 

 There was however, one small column shaft in 

 fine kunkur (Fig. 4) which shewed the trace of 

 a small building, probably early Hindoo. 



There were also heaps of fragments of small 

 kinriaros or cherubs, such as are seen around 

 later statues of Buddha, as well as 2 pairs of 

 feet, with one or two round faces with very 

 lar°-e ear-rings, so that I think that this village 

 would repay a careful search. 



From Khurrah to Soj is only 2 or 3 miles. Soj is a mound of vast 

 extent with a very large square mud fort rising 40 feet on its crest, 

 and an immense jheel stretching away from its base. Near the jheel 

 is an arrangement of old kunkur blocks 16' X lO'-being 5 courses 

 4'— 9" in height, with many blocks lying around, amongst which I 

 identified the centre block of a Jain ceiling as per fig. 5 in the margin. 



This from its size would indicate a 

 building of small size ; but kunkur is 

 a formation which does not readily 

 indicate age. 



I also noticed, set up as a sacred post, 

 a kunkur ornament n being a large 

 finial, the same as A~A found at Ma- 

 loun. A portion of a statue of 



Buddha, being from the waist to the 

 feet, also occurred, but I Avas much 

 disappointed at finding so little that 

 was really ancient. 



Fig. 5. 



