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also observed a stone pillar set up perpendicularly, standing 12 feet 

 high by \\ feet square, with corners chamferred, making it an octagon ; 

 and near this four more of the Tirthancaras are found. All about this 

 temple mound are other mounds of cut stone and bricks, shewing that 

 there must have been here, at a remote period, a numerous people 

 far more advanced in civilization than the Bhoomi and Baori tribes 

 who succeeded them. At the village of Churra near Poorulia, there 

 are two very old stone temples called ' Deols' or ' Dewalas.' The only 

 tradition regarding them is, that they and some large tanks in the 

 vicinity were constructed by the Serawaks here called Seraks. They 

 are built with roughly cut stone, without cement, on the stone carpen- 

 try principle. There were originally seven of these Deols. Five 

 have fallen, and the fragments have been used in building houses in 

 the village. The most perfect of the two that remain, is a tower 

 terminating in a dome of horizontal courses of stone about 30 feet 

 high, with a circular finial like a huge cog-wheel, and the remains of 

 flag-roofed colonnades on both sides. The slabs forming the roof are 

 great blocks of granite from 5 to 9 feet in length, 2 to 2 J in breadth 

 and 1 foot thick. There is no carving about these temples, and no 

 object of worship now in the shrines, but on some of the stones that 

 are scattered about, tracings of the nude " Tirthancaras" are visible. 

 There is another of these temples at Telkoopi on the Damodur ; and 

 there is there an image still worshipped by the people in the neigh- 

 bourhood, which they call Birrup. This image I have not seen, but 

 it is probably intended for the 24th " Tirthancara," ' Vira' or Maha- 

 bira, the last Jina. 



Some four miles south 'of the town of Jaipore on the right bank of 

 the Cossai river, near the village of Boram, are three very imposing 

 looking brick temples rising amidst heaps of debris of other ruins, 

 roughly cut and uncut stones and bricks. Besides the mounds, on which 

 these temples stand, there are other mounds all composed of similar 

 debris and traces of enclosures, shewing this to have been at one time 

 a very important place. The most southern of the three temples is the 

 largest. The tower rises from a base of 26 feet square. The chamber 

 occupies only 9 feet square of this, and after about 9 feet of upright wall 

 is pyramidal in form, the bricks in rows of first three, then two, and 

 near the top one, gradually approaching, till the four sides meet. The 



