16S Notes on Atranji KJtera. [No. 3, 



To the north was visible, at a short distance, another outwork 

 which had originally borne a building, but the mound was much 

 lower and smaller than that at the south-eastern corner. Continuing 

 round the mound, I came at another place to foundations of no note, 

 and saw to the west three smaller mounds, in which no traces of 

 buildings, save broken bricks, probably thrown on them from the fields, 

 remained. 



I also came to the other gate, after crossing the cart-track shewn 

 in the plan. The circuit, which I did not measure, might have been 

 about two miles. 



The fact that this .mound has served as a huge brick kiln to the 

 surrounding country, lying within a radius of eight miles, for the past 

 7 or 800 years, readily accounts for the absence of all other traces of 

 buildings, and it was with the greatest difficulty I was able to find 

 an entire brick to measure, and I much fear that no good would result 

 from any excavation made in this spot. Block kunkur must have 

 been used instead of stone, and all the remains of this have been 

 utilized by succeeding generations for lime and road-making, so that 

 not a trace now remains. 



Etah, December, 1865. 



Notes on some Buddhist Ruins at Doob Koond. — By Captain W. R. 



Melville, in charge, Qwalior Survey. 



[Received 31st January, 1866.] 



I discovered the other day some totally new Buddhist ruins and an in- 

 scription, two copies of which are sent in a tin case with this note.* I 

 bave also taken five photograpbs of the sculpture in different parts of 

 the temple, but I shall be unable to print off copies until my return to 

 recess quarters in April. This temple is situated in the dense forest 

 on the left bank of the Koonoo river, one of the southern tributaries 

 of the Chumbul. I first passed through these jungles in the cold 

 weather of 1863, and I always, from the first, had an idea that these 

 * The inscription will be published hereafter. Ed. 



