1866.] Antiquities in the Gayd District. 55 



In a comer of the village near the temple, there are a great number 

 of lingams collected, of all sizes, many with 3 and 4 sculptured faces. 

 To the east of the temple there is a small tank ; on the hanks there are 

 several sumadhs or tombs, of the form which is so common at Boodh 

 Gay a, 



Palee. — Four miles nearer G-aya is another village called Palee, which 

 seems to have had several temples ; one at least Avas Buddhist, and of 

 the same form as the one at Nair and at Poonawa. Judging by the few 

 pillars still standing (see Photograph No. 33 J a great number of pillars 

 have been removed. When I last visited the place, quarrying for 

 bricks was being actively carried on. Several large lingams had been 

 dug out of the mass of rubbish, and also a bull of the usual form, so 

 that the temple, which was most likely originally Buddhist, had subse- 

 quently been converted into a Hindoo one. A few paces to the west 

 close to the road there is a large lingam in situ, with a peepul tree 

 growing in the interstices : see Photograph No. 34. Close by is the lintel 

 of a Buddhist temple door, and the side posts are a little distance apart 

 under a peepul tree : see Photograph No. 35. For some distance round 

 there are traces of temples, but those described seem to bave been the 

 only ones of any size. 



Almost directly south from Konch is a large village called Kabur, 

 and adjoining it is a rather large fort marked Mudun in the maps, but 

 I could find no local name for it. Prom the extensive mounds in every 

 direction, and the appearance and size of the fort, it is of much earlier 

 date than the generality of the mud forts so common in this district. 

 It is attributed to the Kole Rajahs by the natives, and this is the case 

 with everything which is earlier than the advent of the Mussulmans. 

 I was disappointed in not finding any figures or inscriptions in the 

 neighbourhood. There are one or two pillars of black chlorite which 

 must have belonged to some old Hindoo Temple, but the natives in- 

 formed me they had been collected for the building of a mosque by 

 some former inhabitant of the village. There is a granite stone, itself 

 originally a part of a pillar, inserted in a large well, but Avhich has 

 proved to be the dedication of the well by some obscure individual : see 

 Photograph No. 36. 



About 6 miles to the south-west is a large village and bazar called 

 Chirkawan ; it is the principal place in the Pergunnah of that name. It 



