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building up. There is a second tank, at a short distance to the 
north, formed by the excavation of the rock for building materials. 
Both of these tanks are now dry. 
41. The stupa called Jarasandha-ka-baithak is a solid cylindrical 
brick tower 28 feet in diameter, and 21 feet in height, resting on a 
square basement 14 feet high. The cylinder was once surmounted 
by a solid dome or hemisphere of brick, of which only 6 feet now 
remain, and this dome must have been crowned with the usual 
umbrella rising out of asquare base. The total height of the building 
could not therefore have been less than 55 feet, or thereabouts. The 
» surface has once been thickly plastered, and the style of ornamen- 
tation is similar to that of the Great Temple at Buddha Gaya. I 
sank a shaft 41 feet in depth from the top of the building right 
down to the stone foundation; and I continued a gallery, which 
had been begun many years ago, at the base of the cylinder, until 
it met the well sunk from above, but nothing whatever was discovered 
in either of these excavations to show the object of the building. 
42. On the west side of Jarasandha’s Tower, and almost touching 
its basement, I observed a low mound which seemed like the ruin 
of another stupa. On clearing the top, however, I found a small 
chamber 5 feet 8 inches square, filled with rubbish. This chamber 
gradually widened as it was cleared out, until it became 7 feet square. 
At 5% feet in depth the rubbish gave place to brick-work, below 
which was a stratum of stones, evidently the rough foundation of 
the building. In the south-west corner of the brick-work, about 
one foot below the surface, I found 84 seals of lac firmly imbedded 
in the mud mortar. The seals were all oval, but of different sizes, 
generally about 3 inches long and 2 inches broad. All, however, 
bore the same impression of a large stupa with four smaller stupas 
on each side, the whole surrounded by an inscription in Medieval 
Nagari characters, Ke Dharmma hetu prabhava, &c., being the well 
known formula of the Buddhist faith. Mxternally this building was 
square with projections in the centre of each face and similar in its 
ornamentation to the basement of Jarasandha’s Tower. 
43. On the eastern side of the Panchana River, there is an 
extensive mound of ruins, being half a mile long from north to south, 
and 800 yards broad in its widest part. There are the remains of 
two paved ascents on the river side, and of three more on the opposite 
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