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and fish ponds still surround the place. Indeed, the trees are parti- 

 cularly luxuriant, owing to the high level of the water which is within 

 5 or 6 feet of the surface. For the same reason the tanks are numer- 

 ous and always full of water. The largest of these is the Dron Sdgar, 

 which, as well as the fort, is said to have been constructed by the five 

 Pandu brothers for the use of their teacher Drona. The tank is only 

 600 feet square, but it is esteemed very holy, and is much frequented by 

 pilgims on their way to the source of the Granges. Its high banks are 

 covered with Sati monuments of recent date. Tbe walls of the fort are 

 built of large massive bricks, 15 inches by 10 inches by 2 J inches, which 

 are always a certain sign of antiquity. The general height of the walls 

 is 30 feet above the fields ; but the whole is now in complete ruin, and 

 covered with dense jungle. Shallow ditches still exist on all sides 

 except the east. The interior is very uneven, but the mass has a mean 

 height of about 20 feet above the country. There are two low open- 

 ings in the ramparts, one to the north-west and the other to the south- 

 west, which now serve as entrances to the jungle, and which the people 

 say were the old gates of the fort. 



202. There are some small temples on the western bank of the Dron 

 Sdgar ; but the great place of worship is the modern temple of Jwala 

 Devi, 600 feet to the eastward of the fort. This goddess is also called 

 Ujaini Devi, and a great fair is held in her honour on the 8th clay of 

 the waning moon of Chaitra. Other smaller temples contain symbols of 

 Mahadeva under the titles of Butesar, Muktesar, Ndgndth, and Jdgesar. 

 But all of these temples are of recent date ; the sites of the more ancient 

 fanes being marked by mounds of various dimensions from 10 to upwards 

 of 30 feet in height. The most remarkable of these mounds is situated 

 inside the northern wall of the fort, above which. the ruins rise to a height 

 of 52 feet above the country, and 22 feet above the ramparts. This 

 mound is called Bhimgaja, or Bhimgada, that is, Bhim's club, by which 

 I understand a large lingam of Mahadeva. Were it not for this name, 

 I should be inclined to look upon this huge mound as the remains of 

 a palace, as I succeeded in tracing the walls of what appeared to have 

 been a large room, 72 feet in length from north to south, by 63 feet in 

 width, the walls being 6 feet thick. About 500 feet beyond the 

 north-east angle of the fort there is another remarkable mound which 

 is rather more than 34 feet in height. It stands in the midst of a 



