1838.] Ruins ofJdjipur. 55 



of black chlorite and highly polished. I could obtain no information 

 worthy of credit regarding it ; it is called Sivastambha and is 35 feet high ; 

 the shaft is 19 feet 8 inches, the base 6 feet, consequently the capital 

 is 9-4, consisting of three separate blocks which have been shaken out 

 of their original position : indeed I doubt their originality. 



The column is a polygon of 16 sides slightly concave. It would be 

 useless conjecturing the origin of this elegant column, or even the former 

 locality of it ; it certainly was not always in its present situation but has 

 been fixed in some building, perhaps a terrace, now no longer in existence. 



Want of time again prevented my visiting a curious place said to be 

 on a hill 3 miles off, but, God willing, I shall pay a special visit to Juji- 

 pur at some future period, where I shall devote a few days to hunting 

 out and remarking upon all its now unknown curiosities. 



I remarked a number of Jain and Buddhist figures in different places 

 scattered about. 



I omitted to state that an assertion of the villagers that a fine figure of 

 Garuda was formerly at the top of the pillar and had flown away and 

 alighted a mile off when Ka'la'pa'ha'r came to commit his ravages at 

 Jdjipur ; since which it had remained there and had had a small temple 

 erected over it. Curiosity led me to the spot : I was shewn within a small 

 temple an elegantly executed figure of Garuda of black chlorite, a sketch of 

 which I annex ; it rests on a shaft (sunk in the ground) exactly similar 

 in dimensions to the Sivastambha and may probably have belonged to it. 



In the suburbs I remarked an ancient bridge similar to that over the 

 Kanse-banse* but nearly buried in the earth, the accumulation of ages. 

 A river called Mudagir, used in former times to flow through it, but 

 of which there is scarcely a visible sign left ; the bridge is of itself very 

 ancient and constructed of materials taken from buildings of more remote 

 date still. Figure (1) is an elevation of one of the archesf which struck 

 me as very peculiar : it will be observed that there is a regular keystone 

 in lieu of the more common block architrave. Figure (2) shews the 

 manner in which the stones project and are finished off on the starlings, 

 that is, on the face towards the stream. 



The huts and houses in the town (which is very straggling) are re- 

 markably neat and are all on stone terraces J raised to the height of 4 

 and 5 feet, a very necessary precaution in a place subject to inunda- 

 tions as this is ; the country is a very few feet higher than the bed of the 



* This is the place alluded to in the Udayagiri inscription, see last No.— Ed. 

 t A represents the face towards the streams, and B the opposite side. Th« 

 actual form of the arch is not altered by this arrangement. 

 X Hewn stones from the different ruins. 



