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to the opinion that the inner hemisphere was an ancient relic supe, 
and that this having become ruinous, it was repaired, and an outer 
easing added by the brothers Sthira Pdla and Vasanta Pdla in A. D. 
1026. In the Mahdéwanso we find the record of similar additions 
having been made to some of the s¢wpas in Ceylon, and I know from 
personal inspection that many of the great Dhagopas of Burmah have 
been increased in size by subsequent additions. 
250. Due south from the great tower of Dhamek, and at a distance 
of 2,500 feet, there is a lofty ruined mound of solid brick-work, sur- 
mounted with an octagonal building. When I first lived at Benares, 
this mound was always known by the name of Chaukandi, of which no 
one knew the meaning. But during my late visit I found that the 
old name was nearly forgotten, having been superseded by Luri-ka- 
kodan, or “ Luri’s leap.” ZLurt was an Ahir, who jumped from the 
top of the octagonal building some years ago, and was killed. The 
mound itself is 74 feet in height to the floor of the octagonal building, 
which rises 23 feet 8 inches higher, making a total height of 97 feet 
and 8 inches. An inscription over one of the door-ways of the build- 
ing records that it was built in the reign of Humdywn, as a memorial 
of the emperor’s ascent of the mound. 
251. In 1835 I opened this mound by sinking a well from the 
floor of the building right down to the plain earth beneath the found- 
ation. JI also drove a horizontal gallery to meet the well about half 
way up the ascent. But as neither of these excavations resulted in any 
discovery, I then thought it possible that my well might not have 
been sunk in the axis of the building. I therefore began to widen 
the well from the point of junction of the gallery until it was nearly 
20 feet in diameter. This work was stopped at a depth of 27 feet, 
by my departure from Benares. I have again examined this ruin, 
and I am now quite satisfied that my first well was sunk in the very 
centre of the mound. The absence of any relic chamber shows that 
this was not a relic tower, a conclusion which is fully borne out by 
Hwen Thsang’s description of one of the most remarkable of the 
sacred edifices near the Deer Park at Benares, which I believe may 
be identified with the Chawkandi mound. 
252. At 2 or 3 li (or rather less than half a mile) to the south- 
west of the Deer Park monastery, Hwen Thsang places a stupa 
which was no less than 300 feet in height, This lofty monument 
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