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of Europe will be able to give a more satisfactory interpretation of 

 Asoka's edicts than has hitherto been made, even^with the aid of all 

 the learning of Burnouf and Wilson. 



IV.— MADAWAR, OR MADIPUR. 



191. From Srughna the Chinese pilgrim proceeded to Mo-ti-pu-lo, 

 or Madipur, to the east of the Ganges, a distance of 800 U, or 183 

 miles. Madipur has been identified by M. St.. Martin with Manddwar, 

 a large old town in Western Rohilkhand near Bijnor. I had made the 

 same identification myself before reading M. St. Martin's remarks, and 

 I am now able to confirm it by a personal examination of the locality. 

 The actual distance from Paota on the Jumna to Manddwar via. Hand- 

 ivdr, is not more than 110 miles by the present roads ; but as it 

 would have been considerably more by the old native tracks leading 

 from village to village, the distance recorded by Hwen Thsang is most 

 probably not far from the truth, more especially when we remember 

 that he paid a visit to Ma-yu-lo, or Mayurapura, now Myapoor, near 

 Hard war at the head of the Granges Canal. But the identity of the 

 site of Maddivar with Madipur is not dependent on this one distance 

 alone, as will be seen from the subsequent course of the pilgrim, which 

 most fully confirms the position already derived from his previous route. 



192. The name of the town is written *rs"RT, Maddivar, the 

 Munddwur of the maps. According to Johari Lai, Chaodri and 

 Kanungo of the place, Maddivar was a deserted site in Sam vat 1171, 

 or A. D. 1114, when his ancestor Dwdrka Das, an Agarwala Baniya, 

 accompanied by Katdr Mall, came from Mordri in the Mirat District, 

 and occupied the old mound. The present town of Maddwar contains 

 7,000 inhabitants, and is rather more than three-quarters of a mile in 

 length by half a mile in breadth. But the old mound which represents 

 the former town is not more than half a mile square. It has an aver- 

 age height of 10 feet above the rest of the town, and it abounds with 

 large bricks, a certain sign of antiquity, frt the middle of the mound 

 thei-e is a ruined fort, 300 feet square, with an elevation of 6 or 7 feet 

 above the rest of the city. To the north-east, distant about one mile 

 from the fort, there is a large village, on another mound, called 

 Madiya ; and between the two lies a large tank called Kunda Tdl, 

 surrounded by numerous small mounds which are said to be the re- 



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