JOURNAL 



or 



THE ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



No. 43.— July, 1835. 



I. — Notice of the Temple called Seo Byjnauth, (Siva VaidyandtJi) dis- 

 covered* by Sergeant E. Dean, on the 3rd December, 1834, on the 

 Hill of Unchdpahur, in the Shekdwati Territory. 



[Read before the Asiatic Society, 5th August, 1835.] 



[Some days prior to the arrival of Mr. Dean's facsimile of the inscription 

 referred to in the following paper, another facsimile of the same inscription, taken 

 by Dr. G. C. Ran t kix, was presented to the Society, (see Proceedings of the 

 11th March, 1835.) This unfortunately was so much smeared, and injured by 

 rain, on the way down, as to be totally illegible. Mr. Dean has the credit, there- 

 fore, of putting us in possession of the best, though not the first copy of this 

 ancient and valuable record. It is to his friend Sergeant Buttress also, that we 

 are indebted for the sketches of the architecture of the ruined temple. Lieut. 

 Kittoe, who has kindly undertaken for us the task of lithographing the columns, 

 has also added a note on the date of this peculiar style of Hindu architecture ; 

 having himself bestowed much study on the Hindu remains in the Western Pro- 

 vinces. — Ed.] 



Plate XXVII. — Unchapaharf (the high hill) rears its bluffhead about 

 five miles S. E. of Sikar, and by its superior height alone, would be 

 a conspicuous object, within 15 or 20 miles : as when seen from a 

 greater distance, the outline would become blended with the general 

 masses of hills intervening and flanking it ; but it forms a decided and 

 prominent landmark for a much larger circle, owing to its exact posi- 

 tion being indicated by a tall spire, which can be distinguished above 

 the tops of all the surrounding hills at such a distance, as to appear 



* I say discovered, as the resident br£hraan informed me, they had never seen 

 au European on the hill before, and one of them, an old man, had been reared 

 here. 



t Dr. Rankin designates the hill Harsh, from the name of a village on 

 the spot.— Ed. 

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