760 Notice on the Antiquities of Bhopah [Aug. 



exclusive of an entrance porch. It is of somewhat rude or plain work- 

 manship. Its ground plan shows three chambers with a cloister or 

 veranda before them. The upper story has been converted into a 

 dwelling house, the lower is untenanted, but I could not, amidst the 

 rubbish which encumbers it, see any image. On either side of the en- 

 trance, tablets have been inserted in the wall for inscriptions, but one 

 inscription only has been begun and two-thirds of what was designed 

 is still unwritten. The language is Sanscrit, but the letters, which are 

 beautifully cut, are Pracrit or Mugadha, or such as are still read by the 

 Jain priests. The subject is the sun and the glories of that great 

 luminary, but no date or name helps to fix the era of its erection or the 

 faith of its builders, and it is perhaps tradition, rather than certain 

 knowledge or probable criticism, which makes the several " Beeja mun- 

 durs" of this part of India to be Jain temples. In structure however 

 this one at Oodehpoor closely resembles the low-roofed Buddhist tem- 

 ples or shrines still visible around the Tope at Satcheh. 



Ehrin. — Ehrin, in the Saugor territory, is now a village on the left 

 bank of the Beena, near its junction with the Betwah, about 25 miles 

 N. E. from Serong — but it appears once to have been a town of some 

 local repute — small copper coins can still be found after each successive 

 annual denudation of the mounds which mark its site, and several 

 adjoining monuments of stone, the remains perhaps of an extensive 

 integral series, make the place well known for many miles around. 

 Some of the coins accompany this letter, but nothing perhaps can be 

 made of them.* 



The most remarkable of the monumental remains is Vishnu mani- 

 fest as the Boar. The animal stands about 10 feet high with his snout 

 in the air, and it is in length perhaps 12 feet. The body is carved all 

 over with successive rows of small figures having the short tunic and 

 high cap or head dress remarked at Oodehghir and Satcheh. A band, 

 ornamented with human figures seated, encircles the neck of the ani- 

 mal. The tongue projects and supports a human figure erect on its 

 tip. A young female, here, as at Oodehghir, hangs by the arm by the 

 right tusk, while the breast is occupied with an inscription, of which a 

 copy has been made as accurately as its mutilated state and the short- 



* Small, square and much worn copper coins, with the bodhi tree, the swastica, and 

 other Buddhist emblems.— Eds. 



