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large bricks, averaging 5 inches in thickness. These bricks were 17} 
' inches in length, and wedge-shaped, being 83 inches broad at one end, 
and only 7 inches at the other end. These dimensions would give a 
diameter of only 163 feet to the stupa. 
177. he large mound called Mdthd-Kudr-ka kot, or the “ Fort 
of Matha Kuar,” is 600 feet in length from north-west to south-east» 
and from 200 to 300 feet in breadth. At its highest point, which is 
30 feet 3 inches in height above the plain, the mound is formed 
entirely of solid brick-work, which I believe to be the remains of a 
very ancient stupa. On this point stands a solid tower of brick-work, 
with sides much ruined, and its top covered with long grass. This 
is undoubtedly a stupa, and from its position it must be of much 
later date than the ancient mass of brick-work on which it stands. 
I conelude that it is a work of middle age, or between A. D. 200 and 
600. At present the mass of the tower is only 24 feet thick, but 
by clearing away the rubbish, I measured a circumference of 86 feet, 
which gives a diameter of nearly 273 feet. The present height of 
the lower portion is only 15 feet, and that of the grass-covered top 
12 feet 9 inches, the whole being 27 feet 9 inches above the ancient 
foundation, and 58 feet above the plain. But as the original height 
of this later work was most probably equal to two diameters, or 55 
feet, the whole height of the stupa above the plain would have been 
85 feet. I drove a horizontal gallery into the centre of the building 
at its base without making any discovery. I confess that I did not 
expect to find any thing, as I believe that, whatever relics may have 
been deposited on this spot, they would have been placed in the 
more ancient stupa below, which forms the foundation of the present 
monument. There is a fine Pipal tree close to this stupa. 
178. The mound called the Fort of Matha Kuar is situated nearly 
1,600 yards to the north north-west of the ruined stupa called 
Ramabhar. Buchanan give the distance as 400 yards, which 1s most 
probably a misprint for 1,400 yards. My distance was measured 
from centre to centre; if taken from foot to foot, the distance would 
be a little over 1,400 yards. This mound would seem to have been 
formed of the ruin of two large buildings and of several small ones. | 
The site of one of the larger ones has just been described ; that of 
the other is to the north-westward, the summit of the mound at this 
point, which is crowned by a large Pipal tree, being 20 feet in height 
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