1848.] 



deputed to the Tibetan Frontier. 



123 



Bate. 



8th Nov. 



9th 



10th 



Pandretan. 



Avantipur. 



Bij Bihara. 



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lOi 



Remarks. 



pieces that can be carried either by 

 men or by bullocks. They are called 

 Sher-bachchas and Bagh-bachchas or 

 Tiger-cubs and Leopard-cubs. I re- 

 quested permission to visit the different 

 ruined temples in Kashmir, which was 

 readily granted ; and I then took leave 

 of the Maharaja, who presented me 

 with a large scarlet cloak lined with 

 fine sheep skins. 



Having sent a small boat to the tank 

 in which the temple of Pandretan is situ- 

 ated, I was able to make a plan and ele- 

 vation of this building, by measure- 

 ment. It was built by the minister of 

 Nirjita Vermma, in a. d. 920-921. 



Road along the right bank of the Be- 

 hat, and through the celebrated saffron- 

 fields to Pampur ; thence over an eleva- 

 ted plain for four miles to Satapura (or 

 Lalitadityapura), where the road again 

 proceeds along the bank of the river as 

 far as Avantipur. At this place I found 

 four ruined temples, two of which were 

 built by Avanti Vermma, and two by 

 his minister. Two of them are now 

 mere heaps of rubbish. I made a ground 

 plan by measurement of one of the two 

 other temples, and left money to pay 

 for excavating a part of the earth that 

 had silted up the columns of the peri- 

 style of the fourth temple. 



Road for 7 miles up the right bank of 

 the Behat, and thence across the river by 

 ferry. There are no ruins about Bij Bi- 

 hara worth visiting, and the only inscrip- 

 tion has been almost defaced by the 

 Musalmans. The present town is built 

 on the debris of the former city ; for 

 the lingam, called Ladhaswa, or Kishte- 

 swar, is now 15 feet below the level of 

 the ground on which the surrounding 

 houses stand. 



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