472 Memoir on a Map of Peshdwar [Aug. 



The inhabitants assert that a city surrounded it called Bidad-nagar, 

 which through the wickedness and cruelty of the raja was destroyed 

 by an earthquake, — a fact borne out by the appearance of the mound. 

 This hillock had been in generations past dug up in search of coins 

 and relics. The walls were of brick, very massive and large : there 

 were two or three reservoirs and some wells within the enclosure, one 

 built of stone. The Cashmerians for twenty-five years have been in the 

 habit of digging here, nominally for bricks, but evidently from their 

 eagerness they have fallen upon more valuable spoil : the chief of Jelim 

 has several times confiscated pots of copper and silver coins thus dug up. 

 The greater part of these have a horseman on one side and a bull on 

 the other*. At one time a number of squared blocks of red granite 

 were dug up, and some door posts which have been since converted 

 into objects of worship by some Uddsi faqirs on the banks of the 

 Hydaspes. One of them is sketched in fig. 2 of PI. XX, and is seen 

 to be the door post of a Hindu templet- The fellow of it is set up at 

 Khallih, three kos N. N. W. of Jelim, by some Ben-bdba faqirs. M. 

 Court imagines this spot to have been the site of Bucephalia ; and 

 he would fix Nicea at Patti-kuti near Vessa, three kos E. of Jelim. In 

 his opinion Jelim and Aurangdbdd\ are the only positions in which two 

 numerous armies could have encamped to dispute the passage of the 

 river. Moreover, not a vestige of an ancient town is to be found on 

 the west bank of the Hydaspes from Kala Mangala to Ddrapur, except 

 at Sultdnpur, where the river debouches from the hills. In face of this 

 spot is the fortress of Kala Mangala, attributed to Raja Sarwan. The 

 opposite bank is too broken for Porus to have manceuvered his cha- 

 riots. Below Sultdnpur, at the small hill of Baruti, the inhabitants 

 assert a bridge of boats formerly existed. Two kos further down, at 

 Menar, are seen the remains of a castle of very great antiquity : the 

 river once washed its walls, but has now retired half a league. It is 

 accounted the customary place of crossing the river in former days. 



* This description is insufficient to determine whether they are of the Azos 

 group, or whether of the Rajput series ; but as they are called above, Hindu, we 

 presume the latter must be the case ; and this will account for the large quantity 

 of these coins procured by Keramat Ali and Mohan Lal in the Panjab. It 

 may also account for the inscription Sy&lapati on one series of them — "lord 

 of the <Sya/a.y," whom Col. Wilford fixes as the people of Taxila, (see above.) 

 —Ed. 



f Capt. Burnes describes a. fluted pillar with a capital very like the Corinthian 

 order shewn to him by M. Court. He says also, that the inscription on the 

 slab was in the Arabic character. Travels, i. 58. — Ed. 



X Erroneously written Uzengabad on the map : — and Morungabad of Wil. 

 ford. — Ed. 



