8 Description of the Buddhist Ruins at Bakariya Kund. [No. 1, 
children build with their little wooden bricks. A second object of in- 
terest here is a cut stone screen, which serves the place of a window. 
Nearly a hundred and fifty feet to the east of the last mentioned 
buildings, is another which has evidently been erected with old materials, 
and is of doubtful antiquity. It has four pillars, two outer and two 
inner, exclusive of others imbedded in the walls, and has five recesses 
on its three sides. The carvings have been to some extent obliterated 
by the whitewash with which the mosque is bedaubed. 
Still further on eastwards, at a distance of 75 feet, is a terrace 
walled round by a stone breastwork 48 feet long by 36 broad, on 
which stand four exquisitely carved columns, sustaining an ancient 
roof, the remains probably of a chaitya or Buddhist temple, or of its 
innermost shrine. Its position is exactly opposite the Buddhist temple 
to the west, yet to be described, from which it is distant 550 feet. 
The columns are 7 feet 7 inches in height including the base, and 
are elaborately ornamented; in which respect they differ from the 
pillars of the other temple, which, for the most part, are destitute of 
ornamentation. The four sides of the base display an elegant carving of 
a vase with flowers drooping low over the brim—a device always found in 
these parts in Buddhist shrine-pillars. The well-known representation of 
a face with a floreated scroll streaming forth from the mouth, eyes and 
moustache, is repeated four times on each column, and above it runs a 
band of beads, each of which is nearly an inch in diameter. An are 
of the sun’s disk rests upon this band, and higher up, the column 
becomes octagonal. It then becomes quadrilateral again, and on each 
side is an exquisite design, exceedingly well executed, of an overflowing 
vase. The pillar is crowned with a capital, beneath which is a broad 
double moulding. The cornice above the architrave is also beautifully 
cut. But the ceiling of this shrine, consisting of overlapping stones 
built as before described, is perhaps its most striking feature. Each 
stone is richly carved, and was originally coloured, while representations 
of suns and lotuses are depicted upon them in bold relief. Taking it 
altogether, this little remnant of antiquity is a charming piece of art, 
and is in itself a proof of the delicacy in taste and expertness in 
chiselling of the architects of those times, and is also a proof of the 
sad degeneracy of their posterity. 
This Chaitya seems to have been the eastern extremity of the 
