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tiated with rude votive figures of elephants in baked clay, of which 
numbers lie scattered about the temple, both inside and outside. 
The statue called Hathi Bhawani represents a squatted male figure 
with a triple umbrella over his head. The figure appears to 
be naked, and if so, it must belong to the Jains, and not to the 
Buddhists. A drawing of it may be seen in Buchanan’s Hastern 
India, Vol. 2, Plate I, Fig. 2. There are also two fragments with 
seated Buddhas, and a third with the upper half of a female figure. 
On referring to Buchanan I recognized all three fragments as having 
belonged to the statue sketched as Fig.2in his Plate. The principal 
figure is now gone, but there are a few unimportant fragments not 
noticed by Buchanan, and in the village there is the pedestal of a 
statue, 
173. I made an excavation on the highest part of the mound on 
the west side, and to the northward of the Zamindar’s excavation. 
Tn this I found bricks with rounded edges such as I had noticed in 
the mouldings of the Great Temple at Buddha Gaya, and of the 
stupa at Giryek. I found also wedge-shaped bricks of two sizes. 
The largest ones being only fragments, I was unable to ascertain 
their length, but their breadth was 202 at the end, and J9% inches 
at 6 inches distance. As the larger end was rounded, these bricks 
must have formed part of some circular building, and most probably 
of a solid stupa, which would have been just 30 feet in diameter, 
The smaller bricks were 83 inches long, 5% inches broad at the widest 
end, and 5 inches at the narrow end, with a thickness of 2} inches. 
These may have belonged to a small stupa about 9 feet in diameter, 
In my excavation I found also the base of a pillar of coarse grey sand- 
stone. It was 15 inches square and 63 inches high, with a few plain 
mouldings at the upper edge. The complete excavation of this 
mound would not be difficult, and the work might be superintended 
by the Civil Authorities of the place, who live close by. 
XIX.—Kasta. 
174. The village of Kasia is situated at the crossing of two great 
thoroughfares, at a distance of 35 miles due east from Gorakhpur. 
The name is written Kasia, with the short a in the first syllable; but 
I have little doubt that it should be written Awsta with the short zw, 
for the place corresponds, both in position and in name, with the 
celebrated Ausinagara, or “'Town of the Kusagrass,”” which, as the 
