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were discovered, of which one is an inscribed pillar of a Buddhist railing 

 of middle age. The pillar is broken, but the remaining portions of the 

 socket holes are sufficient for the restoration of the original dimensions. 

 The fragment is 1 foot 11 inches in length, with a section of 8J inches 

 by 4 inches. The socket holes are 8 inches long, and 4f inches apart, 

 which in a pillar of two rails would give a height of 3 feet 2J inches, 

 or of 4 feet 3 inches in a pillar of three rails. The face of the pillar 

 is sculptured with six rows of naked standing figures, there being 

 five figures in the lowest row, and only four figures in each of the 

 others. On one of the sides there is the following short inscription 

 in four lines of the age of the Guptas : — 



Acharya Indranandi Sishya Mahddari Pdrswamatisya Kottari. 

 The last word but one might perhaps be read as patisya ; but the 

 remainder of the inscription is cmite clear. I understand it to record 

 the gift of " Mahddari, the disciple of the teacher Indranandi, to the 

 temple (Kottari) of Parswamati." Perhaps the term Kottari may be 

 preserved in the name of Katdri Khera, by which the mound is now 

 known. 



222. The other sculptured stones are not of much interest. The 

 largest is a broken statue of a standing figure, 3 feet high by 2 feet 

 broad, which appears to be naked. The head, the feet, and the right 

 arm are gone. A second small stone, 1 foot long and 5 inches broad, 

 bears the figures of the Navagraha, or " Nine Planets." On the back 

 there is a short inscription of only eight letters, of which two are 

 somewhat doubtful. I read the whole as Sahada, Bhima, Devindra, 

 but the word Bhima is very doubtful. A third stone, 2J feet long 

 and 1^ feet square, is the fragment of a large pillar, with a lion sculp - 

 tured on each of its four faces. The naked figures of these sculptures 

 belong to a somewhat late period of Buddhism, after the introduction 

 of the Tantriha doctrines, which, as we learn from Skanda Gupta's 

 inscription on the Bhitari Pillar, were prevalent during the time of the 

 later Guptas, in the 3rd and 4th centuries A. D. As the forms of the 

 letters of these inscriptions are also those of the Gupta period, we may 

 conclude with some certainty that the Kottari, or temple, of Parsiva- 

 mati was erected before the fall of the Gupta dynasty in A. D. 319. 



223. Four hundred feet to the south of the great bastion, ajad 

 close to the south-west angle of the fort, there is another extensive 



