186 Description of the Antiquities at Kdlinjar. [March, 



On the right of the cistern is a small basso-releivo of seven deer, from 

 which the name is derived, ?JJT, a deer, and mxj a stream or current. The 

 origin of this name was explained to me by the brahmans, as follows : 

 " In the Sat Yug there were seven sages, (^ra ^ifa) who offended their 

 guru or religious instructor, and were cursed by him. In consequence 

 of his curse they were transformed into hogs, and doomed to wander in 

 Ujeinban or the jungles of Ujein, during the term of their lives, after 

 which they became deer, and are so to remain during the four Yugs, and 

 to subsist only on the food which pious worshippers set apart for them, 

 when performing the ceremony of "pinda parna." The brahmans 

 repeat several couplets referring to this curious legend, which is a 

 proof of the planetary worship shadowed forth in the Hindu Mythology. 

 The " sapt rikh or rishi," are the 7 stars in " Charles' wain" according 

 to Shakespear. Mr. Coleman's account differs ; he says, " The rishis were 

 the offspring of the Brahmadicas, who were the sons of Brahma. They 

 are seven in number, and are named Kasyapa, Atri, Vasishta, Viswamitra, 

 Gautama, Jamadagni, and Bharadwaja. They are astronomically the 

 husbands of the 6 Pleiades. How six and seven can accord, may be 

 difficult to understand : mythologically they were seven sages, who 

 obtained beatitude by their virtue and piety." The dates at Mrigdhara 

 are chiefly of 1600. 



About 100 yards beyond this a postern leads through a bastion on 

 to a terrace or fausse braie, which extends some distance in either 

 direction. There are two dried up kunds here, reached by steps, but no 

 sculpture or inscriptions. They are called Kunbhoo (qusere, from 

 Kumbh ?). From hence to the Nil Kanth gateway, there is nothing to 

 be seen except two or three guns (5 3) of the same description as that 

 already mentioned ; one of them at z has the following inscription : — 



it, originally profusely decorated with sculpture, much of which still remains, and frag- 

 ments are visible in the water, at two of the corners are huge figures of Narayana similar to 

 the one in my sketeh of last year, but having the 10 avatar, the Kurma aval6r and various 

 praying figures represented above and below. These figures are on slabs 10 feet 6 inches 

 long. There are a number of Lings here. 



(53) At * there is an empty building called Singhasila ; it is a mere pile of 



stones, and I fancy from its commanding position it must have served as a look out. 



* Blank in MS. Eds. 



