1837.] condition of Oujein or Ujjayani. 819 



That book of lies, the Jehdngir nameh, notices its author's visit 

 to Oujein, but does not seem to allude to the water-palace. 



The fresh- water lake is probably the Sola Sdgar (presently mentioned) 

 where many ruined Musalman buildings, idgahs, masjids, &c. still 

 abound, and where the natives of the place believe Jehangi'r to have 

 encamped — of the pavilion I could find no trace. When Sir T. Roe, ac- 

 companied the emperor to Oujein -, they pitched at " Calleada." " This 

 place was formerly a seat of the heathen kings of Mandoa one of whom 

 was there drowned in his drink, who being once before fallen into the 

 river and taken up by the hair of the head by a slave that dived, and 

 come to himself, it was told him to procure a reward. He called for 

 his deliverer and asking how he durst put his hands on his sovereign's 

 head, he caused them to be cut off. Not long after sitting alone with hia 

 wife and drunk he had the same fortune to slip into the water, but so 

 that she might easily have saved him which she did not, and being 

 asked why, replied that she knew not whether he might not cut off 

 her hands for a reward." 



I do not find the name of Kaliya-deh in the Avanti-khand of the 

 Skanda Parana. 



A short kos south of the water-palace, the fort of Bhairo, a 

 high wall with gates and towers encloses the left bank of the Sipra 

 in the shape of a horse- shoe. The arch of the wall may be about 

 a mile in circumference ; a ditch formed by a mound of earth as an 

 embankment, and like most native ditches without artificial scarping 

 surrounds the fort, and a similar mound, higher then the wall, lines the 

 interior of it for some distance. As you enter Bhairo-garh by the west 

 gate, you find on the right a temple to the deity of the place. There 

 is no end to Bhairos at Oujein, but eight only boast of superior antiquity. 

 This is the principal, and bears the same name, (Kala Bhairo) as the 

 well known form of the deity at Benares. As the Kasi Bhairo is lord 

 of the rest, and has dominion over the jins and ghosts of Benares, so 

 this image rules over his fellows at Oujein, and holds in subjection all 

 the evil spirits of the neighbourhood. Different names distinguish 

 the other seven Bhairos* but all are imaged by a rude stone, with large 

 -mouth and eyes of red paint. The temple of the three-eyed god now 

 before us, which was built by Mahudaji', or as he is familiarly called 

 Mohdoo Seindia, is a mere bungala roof supported on a rude wall or 

 by wooden pillars. 



Leaving this the road cuts across a neat stone fort about 250 

 yards' square which was left unfinished by its founder Mahudaji', 



* Vikrant, the terrible. Bdlak, the child. B&luk, the baby, &c. 



