1866.] 



Notes on Atranji Khcra. 



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I give in the margin a rough sketch of the last 

 mentioned, and may remark that none of them 

 appeared to have been much worshipped — if 

 at all. 



Also leaning against the Avail was the figure of 

 a four armed figure of Durga, in relief on a slab, 

 treading on a prostrate form. This was of no 

 antiquity. 



After ascending the mound at the south-east 

 corner and proceeding perhaps two or three 

 hundred yards, we came upon a small eminence, by no means the 

 highest point of the Khera, where foundations have been excavated. 

 These foundations appear to have been circular and to have had for 

 diameter about 54 feet, an ample base for the support of a tower of 

 100 feet, as described by the Chinese travellers. 



Proceeding still farther north and keeping at a distance of about 

 100 yards from the eastern face, we came to another mound in 

 which the excavated trenches shew a building to have once stood. 

 The thickness of the foundation walls would indicate a building of 

 some elevation. 



This eastern face runs nearly parallel to the Kalee Nuddee, and 

 proceeding in the same direction, we came to the " gate" before 

 alluded to. 



On the other side of this, the mound is higher, and is now covered 

 with scrub jungle of Korunda and Bair, inhabited only by black 

 partridges, hares, plovers, and large grey owls. 



This is used as grazing ground by the villagers ; and it is here, in 

 and after the rains, that the herd boys find the old silver Hindu 

 coins, six of which were given to me by the Zemindar of Achulpoor, 

 Kullian Sing Thakoor, a most obliging guide, whose son takes an 

 intelligent interest in the Khera. 



These coins were all of the same type, viz. the nail-headed character, 

 the marks here indicated being often found on them. 

 On this part of the mound undoubtedly stood the 

 principal buildings ; although I could not trace even 

 a single foundation. 



