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some of the rooms of the old Hindu palace, which would thus have a 

 breadth of 56 feet. But the block kankar walls can be traced for a 

 distance of 180 feet back from the south-east buttress to a wicket or 

 small door which would appear to have formed a side entrance to the 

 courtyard of the palace. As far as it can be now traced, the palace 

 covered an area of 240 feet in length by 180 feet in breadth. It is 

 said to have been built by Ajoy Poll, to whom also is attributed a tem- 

 ple which once stood close by. Ajoy 'Pal, and Main Pal are said to 

 have reigned a short time before Jay Ghand ; but the names of the 

 intervening Princes are not known. I think it highly probable that 

 Ajoy Pal is the Tomar Prince Joy Pal, who was conquered by 

 Mahmud of Grhaznie, and afterwards defeated and killed, in A. D. 

 1021, by a confederate army under the leadership of the Chandal Raja 

 of Kajanjar. Just outside the south-east buttress of the palace, the 

 people point out a spot where they affirm that 29 golden ingots were 

 discovered in 1834, of which 9 were made over to Mr.. Wemyss, the 

 Collector of Cawnpoor, and the remainder were secreted by the finders. 

 Accounts differ as to the weight of the ingots, but the general belief 

 is that they weighed about 1 ser or 2 lbs each. The coin dealers, 

 however, affirm that the 9 ingots which were taken to the Cawnpoor 

 Treasury weighed Us. 13,500, that is Rs 1,500, or 18f sers, each. 



261. The Jama, or Dina, Masjid of Kanoj is cited by Mr. 

 Fergusson as a specimen of Hindu cloisters, which has been re-arranged 

 to suit the purposes of Muhammadan worship ; and in this opinion I 

 most fully concur. The inscription over the entrance doorway is now 

 much decayed, and several portions are quite obliterated, but a copy 

 has been fortunately preserved by Rajab Ali, a teacher of children, in the 

 court of the Masjid. According to this copy, the Masjid was built in the 

 Hijira year 809, or A. D. 1406, in the reign of Ibrahim Shah (of Jon- 

 pur). It is situated on a lofty mound in the very middle of the old 

 fort, and this commanding position alone would be sufficient to show 

 that it must originally have been the site of some Hindu building of 

 considerable importance. This conclusion is partly confirmed by the 

 traditions of the people, who, however, most absurdly call the place 

 Sitaka Basil, or " Sita's kitchen." We know also that it was the usual 

 practice of the Muhammadan Kings of Jonpur to raise their Masjids on 

 the sites, and with the materials, of the Hindu temples which they 



