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been Bhudrawat, and it is related that the Pandoos gave battle to the 

 then Raja, in order that they might obtain the white horse with the 

 black ear to enable them to perform the " Uswoomed" sacrifice and to 

 challenge the supremacy of India. The horse was stabled upon the 

 precipitous rock of " Lohanghee" to the eastward of the town, and 

 the Lord of Bhilsa had to yield it to his conquerors. On the opposite 

 bank of the Betwah is still to be seen the site of a town known as 

 Beisnuggur, and there is still a tribe in this part of India called the 

 Beis or Beius, which claims to be Rajpoot. The present walls of Bhil- 

 sa are said to have been built by a Bheel Chief, and the name may 

 possibly show it to have been the seat of a tribe, which has been push- 

 ed further to the westward within the historical period. 



Bhilsa itself contains one edifice only of any note, viz : a mosque of 

 rude workmanship built on the site of a " Beeja (Vijaya) Mundur" 

 destroyed by Aurungzeb. From the fragments or portions of this tem- 

 ple which are still visible it would appear to have been a very elaborate 

 work. The mosque is only curious, as a building, from its two mina- 

 rets which are each formed by clustering together four pillars of irre- 

 gular bases so as to form upon the whole two sides of a square in plan. 

 The minarets are nearly destroyed, and the building suffered somewhat 

 during the Mahratta wars from the ill directed fire of Ameer Khan's 

 cannon. The inscription which accompanies this, is to be seen on a 

 stone built into the wall of a narrow passage.* 



The " Topes" near Bhilsa. — The " Topes" and other Buddhist re- 

 mains at Satcheh. Kanehkhera about 4j miles to the south-west of 

 Bhilsa, are however the monuments which give to that place its chief 

 antiquarian interest. To these may be added the " Topes" at Peepleea, 

 Bijolee, six or seven miles south-east from the two and the Vaishnu- 

 vee sculptures at Oodehghir about a mile and a half west of Bhilsa and 

 nearly double that distance north of the Satcheh " Topes" 



The two Topes at Satcheh were visited in 1819 by Captain Fell, 

 [see Journ. As. Soc. for 1834, p. 488, &c], when they were in better 

 preservation than they are now, for an opinion confidently expressed by 

 that officer, that they contained chambers or were not solid, led to two 

 attempts to excavate them on the part of amateurs or antiquaries. 



* The words of the Inscription are read, but the language is not understood, by the 

 Pundits here ; some terms or words seem to be pure Sanscrit, 



