1865.] Description of the Buddhist Ruins at Bakariya Kund. 7 



To the east of the Dargah is a small mosque, 37 feet long by 19J 

 feet broad, open to the east, and supported by three rows of pillars, 

 five in each row. The pillars in the second row have deep scroll 

 carvings on their sides, with ornamented corners consisting of lotus 

 seed-pods, one on another. Each pillar is 7 feet 9 inches high, includ- 

 ing the capital, and the latter is 2 feet 6 inches in length and 2 feet 

 4 inches in width. The capitals of the outer pillars are somewhat 

 larger than those of the inner, and are in the form of a cross, the 

 extremities being rounded off ; while the upper surface of each limb 

 exhibits a convex curve, the line of which rises higher in proportion 

 as it recedes from the extremity. The architrave is about a foot in 

 thickness, and on it the flat stone roof rests. Seven niches are placed 

 at intervals round the three walls of the room. The entire building 

 is of stone. The western wall, on its outer side, is strengthened by a 

 buttress, at the base of which runs a beautifully carved band, 11 inches 

 broad, which projects a couple of inches from the wall, and below it is a 

 cornice 10 inches in width and 7 in depth, bearing on its front a broad 

 band of exquisite carving. Some parts of this building are certainly 

 original ; and there can be no doubt of the antiquity of the pillars, 

 which belonged to some Buddhist cloister, or of the fact of the 

 modern character of the enclosing wall. 



A few steps off, is an enclosure in the form of an irregular parallelo- 

 gram, a wall being on either side, and two small Buddhist buildings 

 at its extremities. That situated at the northern extremity is in some 

 respects like the mosque just described. Its carvings, however, are not 

 all the same, and its ornamented band is of a very ancient type. 

 There is a small building used as a Ranza attached to its north-west 

 angle, and sustained by ancient pillars and modern walls. The building 

 is surmounted by a low cupola of primitive construction. It is not 

 unlikely that originally there were cloisters on this bank of the Kund, 

 and that the three small buildings just described were all at one time 

 connected together. 



The edifice at the southern extremity of the enclosure well displays 

 the old Hindu and Buddhist method of making a roof by the imposi- 

 tion of stone beams, one upon another, cross and corner-wise until they 

 met in the middle. The roof of this building exhibits a mass of such 

 beams piled upon each other, exactly like the roof of a house which 



