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picture of the style, viz. a solid round tower with a niche to each of the 

 cardinal points, formerly ornamented with figures of four of the five 

 Budhas, fragments of which are strewed about, and there are likewise 

 many others and much brick rubbish, denoting the existence of some 

 large building in former times ; on the rock to the west is a fine shaft 

 of granite, in the north face of which is an empty niche ; there appears 

 to be no inscription. 



Taking Gyah again as a starting point and proceeding to the south- 

 west four miles beyond Chirki, and on the right bank of the Morhur, 

 we come to the site of a large city and citadel, &c, and no doubt of 

 Budhist and Saiva monasteries, on the two hillocks or rocks by the 

 river side, which are covered with bricks, this place is called Murhut. 



After crossing the river bed and directly opposite, is a high mound 

 called Chillor, on which is a mud fort ; this mound is the site of an 

 ancient city of great extent ; a quarter of a mile to the south are several 

 mounds of earth and bricks ; two are very conspicuous ; one seems to 

 have been a Dagope, the other has lately been opened for the bricks 

 and several Budhist idols of beautiful workmanship found ; one of Siva 

 is of great beauty, large dimensions, and quite different from any other 

 figures I have ever met with. I hope to give an illustration of this 

 figure hereafter ; it took me many hours to draw. There are other 

 mounds which it would be well worth while to open. 



About two miles to the north is a small hill called <e Matka," where 

 there are the remains of a Chaitya ; it was from this spot, I am told, 

 that the small image of Budha, I sent a drawing of last month, was 

 brought. 



Proceeding due west for four miles, we come to a place called " Boo- 

 raba." Here are several sites where there have been Chaityas, and a large 

 Vihara, there is a natural curiosity which has no doubt been always 

 a place of sanctity. There is a hollow spot beside a nullah where there 

 are many powerful springs of apparently mineral waters, which come 

 up vertically through the soil and discharge gas, the same as hot 

 springs ; the temperature of these is said to vary, much as well as the 

 volume of water and gas discharged. 



Two miles or less to the west of this place is a small cluster of hills 

 called Manda, around which pottery and bricks are strewed for a great 

 distance; this is the site of another largo town. There have been 



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