XXXvl Archeological Survey Report. 
One of the last was inscribed with characters of about A. D. 900, 
but the inscription is unfortunately only a fragment. 
92. The city of Bihar consists principally of one long narrow 
street, paved with rough stones. ‘There are two bridges with pointed 
arches over some irrigation canals, the remains of former prosperity ; 
but the whole place is now dirty and decayed. In all directions are 
seen Musalman tombs; the smaller ones of brick, the larger ones of 
squared and carved stones from the usual Muhammedan quarries of 
ruined Buddhist or Brahmanical buildings. To the north-west of 
the city there is a long isolated hill, having a precipitously steep cliff 
on its northern face, and on the southern face an easy slope in suc- 
cessive ledges of rock. The hill is now crowned by some Musalman 
buildings, of which the largest is said to be the tomb of Malik Baya, 
but I believe that it is the tomb of one Ibrahim in the reign of 
Feroze, as I read both of these names in one of the inscriptions. To 
the north-east of these tombs, and distant 1,000 feet, on the highest 
point of the hill, there is a square platform of brick, which must 
once have been the basernent of a building, perhaps of a stupa, while 
the more genial site of the Durga, where fine trees are now growing, 
might once have held a Buddhist Vihar, and its attendant monastery. 
92a. One mile due east from the Durga, and about 100 yards 
inside the northern gate of the old fort of Bihar, there lies a 
sand-stone pillar which bears two separate inscriptions of the Gupta 
dynasty. Unfortunately the surface of the stone has peeled off 
considerably, so that both of the inscriptions are incomplete. ‘The 
upper inscription, which is of Kumara Gupta, has lost both ends of 
every line, being probably about one-third of the whole. The lower 
inscription has lost only the left upper corner, and some unknown 
amount at the bottom, where the pillar is broken off. But as the 
remaining portion of the upper part is letter for letter the same as 
the opening of the Bhitari pillar inscription, nearly the whole of the 
missing part of the left upper corner can be restored at once. This 
record belongs to Skanda Gupta, the son and successor of Kumara 
Gupta. 
93. Outside the northern gate of the old fort, there are some 
tombs that are said to belong to Christiaas, as they lie east and west, 
whilst all Musalman tombs lie north and south. One of them bears 
an inscription surmounted by a cross, which proves it to be a Christian 
