950 Description of a Colossal Jain figure [Sett. 



sleeping during the night drawn up upon a sand bank. From Chakulda 

 on the right bank to Bawangaj temple, is about 8 miles, including the 

 crossing of the river. The only benefit in travelling this road is the 

 celerity with which you can get over the ground, it being the high road 

 between Agra and Bombay as far as Akberpur. Beyond this it is a 

 matter of choice whether the land route be taken via Dharampurf 

 and Bicaneer, or the water. At one of the bungalows, Googree, below 

 the ghats, a stroll of 100 paces round the building amply repays the 

 traveller in the innumerable specimens of lucustrine deposits, princi- 

 pally shells scattered curiously enough loosely over the surface, as if left 

 there by receding water, and in profusion. The Nerbudda presents 

 of course its own peculiarities, but beyond these there is little to attract 

 attention. The other road is longer but full of interest almost all the 

 way. Thirty-one miles distant is Dhar, the reputed capital of the 

 Pramara dynasty, now on the wane, but which has preserved its name 

 and site if nothing else, for nearly 10 centuries. On every side are 

 tombs, musjids and palaces, evidences of the Mahomedan invaders, but 

 now and for some time past falling fast into ruin, and being hourly 

 despoiled to furnish materials for Brahminical temples, in return no 

 doubt for a like compliment paid the Hindus by Dilawar Khan Ghori 

 in 1387. We may say with no irreverence here : — " Sic transit gloria 

 mundi." Baug, 48 miles distant on the direct road, but below 

 the ghats, furnishes its caves, the only purely Buddhistical ones 

 hitherto found in central India, so long the seat of Buddhistical 

 rule, and its invariable associate, paramount religious influence. 

 Hence to Chakulda there is nothing of interest, and there merely a 

 bungalow, from which Bawangaj temple can be both seen and visited, 

 and from which it bears about 13° south-west. There being no 

 water or shelter on the hill, must be returned to daily. It is open to 

 the traveller to return by either route, but perhaps wiser to descend 

 than to ascend the stream. 



Translation of the inscription on a piece of stone on the eastern side 



of the temple. 

 May Ramachandra Muni, who is the receptacle of virtues, who is 

 blessed with wealth, whose feet are adored by the circle of the lords of 

 the earth ; whose fame is as white as the moon, the kunda flower and snow, 



