1848.] On the Rums at Putharee. 305 



3 or 4 ; ordinary, rather lengthened ; yfX T \ ; pale rosy white, thickly 

 and equally sprinkled with confluent blotches of claret colour or purpu- 

 rescent rusty. 



45. G alius Bankivus. — " Bunkookra," " junglee moorug." Of these 

 I took no note, as they are precisely the same as the eggs of the Ban- 

 tam fowl. The jungle hen lays in clumps of bamboo, dense thickets 

 and such inaccessible places, and makes a rude but comfortable nest of 

 straw, dried weeds and leaves, round which the dust is scraped and 

 heaped up. The eggs are generally 6 to 10 in number. 



On the Ruins at Putharee. — By Capt. J. D. Cunningham, Political 



Agent, B hop a I. 



In the paper which I previously addressed to you on the subject of 

 ihe antiquities within the limits of the Bhopal Agency, and which was 

 published in the number of the Journal of the Asiatic Society for August, 

 1847, I mention (p. 761), that at Putharee near Oodehpoor (between 

 Saugor and Serouj), I had heard of the stone representation of the 

 Boar Avatar of Vishnu. My interest in the place was further roused 

 by what I learnt verbally from Dr. Spilsbury and Lieutenant-Colonel 

 Sleeman, and I was thus glad that I should have an opportunity of 

 visiting the place in the course of the present cold season. I was at 

 Putharee towards the end of last month, and I found not only the 

 image of a boar, but a series of antiquities possessed of some peculiar 

 characteristics and highly deserving of accurate description and deli- 

 neation. 



Putharee is said, according to local tradition, to have been anciently 

 called Barnuggur, and to have been ruled over by one Muheeputch, 

 who had seven hundred and fifty sons, in honour of each of whom he 

 reared a separate temple to Mahadeo, the remains of all of which may 

 still, it is asserted, be found. Barnuggur is not an uncommon name, 

 and is evidently a vernacular corruption of the more classical form 

 of the word, Varaha-nagara. Muheeputch is evidently Muheeput, 

 i. e. Mehput as now written or pronounced, and the present state of 

 the ruins attest that at one time the temples must certainly have been 

 numerous, if not so many as tradition represents. No date is assigned 



