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Buddhist shrines, and these were all the buildings to be traced. These 

 are both 50 feet by 30 feet, measured outside, and Plans Nos. 1 and 2 

 sufficiently explain them. Each has a raised platform 19 by 12 feet, 

 built of well-cut kankar blocks without cement, and quite plain. 

 These must originally have risen from 5 to 6 feet, from the terrace 

 in which they stand ; for even now in one place the finished upper 

 work is of that height, whilst in others, rubbish has accumulated. 

 On these raised platforms were probably originally built open chaityas 

 as at Bakariya Kund. The remains of kalasas or dome caps, of 

 5 feet in diameter, such as could crown a " Vimana" of 30 or 40 feet 

 in height, evidence large buildings ; whilst the finding of several 

 projecting face ornaments enabled me at once to state with certainty 

 the original form of the building. See Figures 4, 5 and 9. 



The present residents of the village call the ruins by the name of 

 Jagat Devi's temple, and they tell me that at the Holi festival, 

 a great " niela" or fair is held here, when offerings of ghi and rice 

 are made to the Devi, who is neither more nor less than our old 

 friend " S'akya Muni" or Buddha. The local name merely means 

 " The deity of the locality." 



Buddha is to be found sitting in every niche in the sculpture, and 

 there is, besides, the two small figures, one of which does duty 

 for Jagat Devi, (Figure 5,) and another very well carved, some 

 4 feet in height, of which I give a rough representation, Figure 

 8. Nearly all the Buddhist ruins about here, would seem to belong 

 to the time of the decay of the purer faith, and these are no 

 exceptions ; for we find the ornaments of the projecting faces to have 

 been the same at Anjani, Karimganj, Karauli and Malaun. Vide 

 Figures 4 and 5. 



Here I saw for the first time on kankar, what I believe to be 

 a kind of mason's mark : Figure 11. The carving of the large 

 Buddha is very well executed ; but the head has been knocked off 

 and replaced minus part of the neck ; and the two upper groups of 

 " Kinnaras," or cherubs, are altogether broken away. The two tigers 

 under the lotus, are the same as those I saw at Malaun ; the animals 

 are something between a pig and a bear. The forms of these I saw 

 in Behar, and also on a stone in Benares opposite to the Golden 

 Temple. 



