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cated to the Sun, was also much used by the votaries of Mahadeva, as 

 well as by others, on account of its auspiciousness. Thus there are 84 

 temples to Mahadeva both at Ujain and at Barmawar in Chamba ; and 

 at Depalpur in the Panjab, there are said to be 84 towers and 84 wells. 



6. — I presume that there were elevated pyramidal roofed porches at 

 the angles and in the middle of each of the long sides of the quadran- 

 gle, as at Marttand, and at the other Avantipura temple ; and that the 

 walls of the peristyle were similarly covered by a roof of triangular 

 section. 



7. — Forster calls this place Bhyteepoor, a name which has puzzled 

 Vigne exceedingly ; although it has evidently originated only in a slip 

 of memory, which could not restore the true name, from the inherent 

 imperfection of the Persian alphabet, in which character Forster was 

 obliged to keep his Journal. I suppose that he must have written 

 Bhantipur, in Persian characters, jj$&tf 3 which, when he came to reduce 

 his remarks into English, he might easily have read as Bhytipur. At 

 any rate there is no doubt regarding the identity of this place, both on 

 account of his recorded distances, and of his description of the temple, 

 which he* calls " a shapeless pile of ruins.' ' 



VIII. — Temples at Pathan. 

 1 . — The temples of Pathan are situated on the high road leading to 

 the Barahmula Pass, at 16 miles to the W. N. W. of the capital. Their 

 erection is attributed by the Brahmans to Sankara Varmma, who reigned 

 over Kashmir between the years 883 and 901. The Raja Tarangini, 

 however, simply records the erection of two temples by this Prince, in 

 the town of Sankarapura, which he had himself founded. The identi- 

 fication of this town, with the present Pathan, is asserted by all the 

 Brahmans, who write the name ^«T, Pathan, which means " a road," 

 and not tTtT«T, " a town." The new city may, perhaps, have been so 

 named, because it was in the midst of the high road, leading from the 

 capital out of the valley to the westward. The foundation of these 

 temples is recorded in the following verse of the Raja Tarangini, B. 

 5. v. 157:— 



* Travels, 8vo. vol. 2~~p. 9. 



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