1S2 Description of the Antiquities at Kalinjar. [March, 



square pillars or pedestals (3 9). Some of the subjects are indecent and 

 others represent various deities, dancing girls, &c. 



Proceeding along the side H I you shortly arrive at a considerable 

 drop in the level of the rampart caused by a hollow of the hill. The 

 ground to your right here is high and dotted with several buildings. 

 There are among them some tombs, and Ling chabutras, but the 

 greater part are small plain dewalas, empty, with the exception of one, 

 which contains two wretchedly executed sitting naked figures of Maha- 

 deo and Parbati. These buildings are scattered about the banks of 

 a tank called the Buddhi, Buddha, or Burhiya ke Talao. This tank is 

 about 50 yards by 25, and is excavated in the rock ; it has steps all 

 round it ; bathing in it is said to be very beneficial to soul and body. 

 This tank and the fort are said to have been constructed at the same 

 period. (40) 



A little beyond the hollow ground the rampart has given way and 

 the fragments form a precarious descent to the slope of the hill below, 

 along which is a tangled path, now seldom visited owing to the trouble 

 of reaching it. This path conducts to a Siddh ke gupha, Bhagwan-sej 

 and Pan! ke Aman ; the Siddh ke gupha is merely a small excavation in 

 the perpendicular rock formed for performing penance in ; there is a 

 plan and section of it in (MS.) PI. II. figs. 1 and 2 ;* in it I found the 

 two pieces of stone containing the inscription given in facsimile No. 3 . 



(39) A little beyond this point the brahmans show you a spot at the foot of the ram- 

 part where there was formerly a large temple, to which probably these fragments pertain- 

 cd. There are still traces of building visible, but it is impossible to guess at their nature 

 cr extent in consequence of the height from which you view them.— (PI. VI. fig. 1. p.) 



(40) According to the tradition of the brahmans there was originally only a small 

 fcpring here, the water of which possessed great virtues. It chanced that a raja Kirat 

 Brihm, surnamed Krim Knot, a leper, happened to visit Kalinjar, and hearing of the 

 spring, bathed in it and was cured ; in gratitude for which he made the tank and built 

 Ihe Fort. The name of Krim Khot was probably only allusive to the disease ; Sanscrit 

 Ufa a worm, and ^TS" a blemish, or Tf^l a scab.— But Kirat Brihm is a real name of 

 one of the latter Chandal Rajas, the immediate predecessor of Parmal Brihm, whose 

 name is mentioned on the large inscription at Nilkanth dated 1209 of the Samvat ; so 

 thai according to this account the date of the erection of the fort would be near the end 

 otthe twelfth century of the Samvat, making it a good deal upwards of 700 years old. 



* The publication of all Lieut. Maisey's beautiful plans would involve so heavy an 

 outla/ that we have been compelled to omit several. These we have had traced on thin 

 papee and deposited in the Society's Library. The references to these in Lieut. M.'s 

 paper we have distinguished by the letters (MS.)— Ens. 



