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leads to the nearest portions of the ruins, which have afforded materials 

 for all the buildings in the large village of Deoriya. The exact extent 

 of the fort is not known, but the position enclosed by the Katni Nala 

 is about 6,000 feet in length from N. W. S., and 4,000 feet in breadth, 

 and the fort is said to be somewhat less than half a hos, or just 

 about half a mile in length. The bricks are of large size, 13 by 9 by 

 2 inches, which shows considerable antiquity, but the statues of kan- 

 kar are all Brahmanical, such as the goddess Devi, Siva and his wife, 

 as Gauri-Sankar, and two arghas of lingams. These figures are said 

 to be discovered only in the foundations of the buildings, which, if true 

 would seem to show that the existing remains are the ruins of Muham- 

 madan works constructed of Hindu materials. 



363. The Katni Nala is an artificial canal drawn from the Mala 

 river near Solids, 10 miles to the south-east of Pilibhit, and 6 miles 

 to the north of Dewal. Its general course is from north to south, 

 excepting where it winds round the old fort of Garha-Khera, after 

 which it resumes its southerly course and falls into the Kanhaut Nala, 

 about 3 miles to the south of the ruins. Its whole course is just 20 

 miles in length. All the maps are wrong in giving the name of Katni 

 Nala to the Mala river, instead of to the artificial canal which joins 

 the Mala and Kanhaut rivers. The canal varies in width from 30 and 

 40 feet to 100 feet, and even more, at the places where it is usually 

 forded. Its very name of Katni Nala, or the " cut stream," is suffi- 

 cient to prove that it is artificial. But this fact is distinctly stated in 

 the inscription, which records that Raja Lalla " made the beautiful 

 and holy Katha-Nadi.'" That this was the Katni Nala, which is 

 drawn from the Mala river, is proved by the previous verse, which 

 records that the Raja presented to the Brahmans certain villages 

 " shaded by pleasant trees, and watered by the Nirmala Nadi." This 

 name is correctly translated by James Prinsep as " pellucid stream," 

 which though perfectly applicable to the limpid waters of the Mala 

 river, is evidently the name of the stream itself, and not a mere epithet 

 descriptive of the clearness of its waters. And as the canal was drawn 

 from the Nirmala River, so that villages on its banks are correctly 

 described as being watered by it. 



364. The inscription goes on to say that Raja Lalla and his wife 

 Lakshmi <: made many groves, gardens, lakes, and temples." Prinsep 



