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Following the path at the foot of the fausse braie in the other direc- 

 tion, you reach, after a great deal of scrambling, three small shelving 

 excavations, called Fakir's cave; (51) they are very shallow and so 

 sloping that sitting in them even for a few minutes must have been a 

 considerable penance. 



The next object of interest after leaving the Pannah gate is the 

 Mrig Dhara. There are here two contiguous chambers with domed 

 and pyramidal roofs respectively ; they are built across the terrepleine 

 of the rampart, and are terraced over at top, forming in fact a kind 

 of casemated barbette (vide plan and section PI. X. figs. 9, 10). In 

 the inner chamber, B. D. is a small cistern or basin (g) fall of clear 

 delicious water, which is constantly trickling down from a hole in the 

 side of the chamber ; I imagine this water must percolate from the Kot 

 Tirth, a large tank on the high ground above. (52) 



(51) These are not caves but merely small natural hollows slightly enlarged by 

 manual labour. They adjoin each other, being only separated by a thin screen of rock, 

 which, between the two furthest is cut through. There is no trace of sculpture here, and 

 nothing, but the following characters in the middle cavity *T<»fT%'<3JT ^"5". 



(52) Kot Tirth, from Sanscrit W\& a Fort, and nt^j a place of pilgrimage (espe- 

 cially water.) This is a large lank nearly 100 yards long, artificially formed in the rocky 

 surface of the hill ; there are several flight of steps leading down to the water in different 

 places. They have apparently been at one time profusely decorated with sculptures, 

 some of which now remain. In the wall of the tank at the N. E. corner is a reclining 

 figure of Vishnu Narayana. On the pathway S. E. angle of the tank is a Ling with 4 

 faces about 2 feet 8 inches high (vide PI. XL fig. 11.) There are several buildings 

 scatterred round this tank, mostly modern, and a small dewala at the S. W. corner, where 

 there are some tawdry images and several curious forms of the Ling and Joni (vide 

 PI. XIII.) this end of the tank is formed by. a wall, or rather blocked up bridge, which 

 cuts off a small irregularly excavated portion generally dry ; probably this was only done 

 to give symmetry to the tank j the Kot Tirth is also said to be supplied by springs, and the 

 brahmans aver that in the S. E. corner is a large deep Baoli, whose mouth is hidden 



the water. As I had no means of getting* at the spot in order to plumb the bottom, 1 

 cannot answer for the truth of this statement. Besides this fine tank and the Burhiya 

 talao already mentioned, there are several others on top of the hill. The Madar talao, 

 the Ramna near the lines, and the Sanichari, probably named from Sanichar or Shani, 

 the planet Saturn ; these three are excavated in the rock, but are neither so large nor 

 so carefully formed as the two before mentioned. Besides these there are two ponds nearly 

 dry except in the rains, one to the N. E. of the brahman's hut, is called Taleya or Tile- 

 gani, and the other on the parade, is called the Bijli Talao, almost at the foot of the hill 

 there is another tank called the Sursu Ganga, which seems to collect the water which 

 finds its way from above. This is a considerable sized artificial tank with steps all round 



