JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



MARCH, 1848. 



Description of the Antiquities at Kdlinjar. — By Lieut. F. Maisey, 

 67th N. I. — Communicated by order of the Hon. the Lieut. -Go- 



VERNOR, N, W. P. 



In a Report on the • Antiquities of Kalinjar* which I last year had 

 the pleasure to forward to the Hon'ble the Lieutenant Governor, 

 N. W. P., I mentioned my inability to enter into minute details, owing 

 to my absence from the spot, and the want of notes at the time of 

 drawing up the Report. I hope now to supply any past deficiencies, 

 as the present paper has been entirely drawn up at Kalinjar itself. 



I have already described the general situation and aspect of the Fort 

 and I affix a rough plan of the same, in order to point out more clearly 

 the sites of the various places mentioned. (PI. VI. fig. 1.) 



The Hill of Kalinjar, called also Rabichitr, from xfe, the Sun, was, 

 beyond a doubt, devoted to Hindu worship long before the erection of 

 the Fort, for not only are the dates of inscriptions at the caves, and 

 on the various sculptures earlier than those on the gates of the Fort, 

 but in many places the rampart walls are in a great measure built 

 with fragments of ornamental pillars, cornices, &c. which probably at 

 the erection of the Fort were the remains of Hindu fanes of remote 

 antiquity.(l) These relics of forgotten buildings are seen in many situa- 

 tions which entirely preclude the idea of their having been so placed in 



( 1) This use of the fragments of buildings in the formation of the ramparts renders it 

 difficult to assign the proper dates to them and the gateways. It will be seen that in 

 several gates there is a variety of date and names. 



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