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Allah inscribed on a tablet suspended by a rope. The appearance of 

 the tablet and rope is so like that of the Hindu bell and chain that one 

 is almost tempted to believe that the Muhammadam architect must have 

 simply chiselled away the bolder points of the Hindu ornament to suit 

 his own design. But whether this may have been the case or not, it is 

 impossible to miss seeing that the Hindu bell and chain must have 

 been directly suggestive of the Muhammadan tablet and cord. The 

 Masjid and tombs are surrounded by a wall with four small towers at 

 the corners, and an entrance gate on the south side. In the steps 

 leading up to this entrance I found in 1838 a broken figure of Shasti, 

 the goddess of fecundity, and a pedestal with a short inscription, dated 

 in Samvat 1193, or A. D. 1136. The people also affirm that a large 

 statue formerly stood under a tree close by. All of these are now gone, 

 but the fact that two of them were built into the entrance steps is 

 sufficient to show that the mound on which the Masjid stands must 

 once have been the site of some important Hindu building. 



265. The two statues in the village of Singh Bhaiodni were dis- 

 covered about 100 years ago in a field close by the brick hovel in 

 which they are now placed. The people call them Ram and Lakshman, 

 and the attendant Brahman does so too, although the figures have 

 eight arms each, and although the Fish, Tortoise, Boar and Lion 

 incarnations of Vishnu are represented round the head of one of them. 

 Each of the figures is 3 feet in height, but the whole sculpture is 

 6 feet. Vishnu is also known by the discus (chakra), and club (gadd), 

 from which he derives his well known titles of chakradhar and gadddhar. 

 Along with these sculptures there are some other figures, of which the 

 most important is a statue of the Tantrika Buddhist goddess, Vajrd 

 Vdrdhi. The figure is 2J feet in height and has three heads, of 

 which one is porcine, and the usual number of seven hogs is represented 

 on the pedestal. Outside the building there are figures of Durga slay- 

 ing the Maheshasur, or buffalo demon, and of Siva and Parbati sitting 

 on the bull Nandl. In the neighbouring village of Kutlupur I found 

 the lintel of a temple doorway with a figure of Vishnu in the middle 

 showing that the temple had been dedicated to that god. He is represent- 

 ed sitting on the-Garuda, or eagle, and holding the club and discus. 



266. Tbe remaining place of any note is the Suraj-kund, or 

 " Tank of the Sun," to the south-east of Blakarandnagar. It is now 



