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Bins two are of undoubted antiquity. These latter we shall proceed 
to describe. 
The first is a small domed building sustained by four stone pillars, 
the bases of which rest on a platform twelve feet square, raised a few 
inches above the ground. The shafts of the pillars are square, and 
the capitals are cruciform, each limb being one foot ten inches in 
length, and having the usual Buddhist bell-ornamentation. The pillars 
on the north and east quarters exhibit a groove about 15 inches in 
height, which evidently once contained a pierced stone railing. The 
eaves stones above are apparently original, and have a projection of 
| 15 inches. These eaves are strikingly characteristic of the architec- 
ure of the early period to which this building must be assigned, and 
e often of great size and solidity. In ancient Buddhist structures 
both in Benares and in Jaunpore, as well as in this instance, they are 
nt on the upper surface to resemble woodwork. Some persons will 
ye reminded by this circumstance of Akber’s stone roof at Futteh- 
ore Sikri, cut in imitation of tiles, and of the carved beams in the 
ves at Elephanta. 
The second building is 26} feet long by 23 broad, and is upheld 
y at least 34 columns disposed in the following remarkable order, 
amely, 6 at each of the north-east and south-east corners, 9 couples 
et intervals in the circumference, and 4 single pillars in the centre, 
forming a square. The two clusters of six pillars have been united 
y stone slabs into two thick ones, each 23 feet square. This curious 
ma gamation is, in all probability, the work of the Mahomedans, 
though from what motive, it is hard to conjecture. The building 
‘was already strongly supported, and the alteration considerably de- 
1 re cts from its native simplicity. he space between the side pillars 
‘is 5 feet 9 inches, between the side and centre pillars 6 feet 4 inches, 
and between the centre pillars themselves 5 feet 1 inch. The height 
| of each column is 6 feet 11 inches, of which the base is 9 inches, 
the shaft 4 feet 8 inches, the stone upon it 10 inches, and the capital 
ot 8 inches. The innermost line of columns is built into a wall 
olid masonry composed of ancient stones, and is of more recent date 
n other parts of the edifice. The roof is of long stone slabs, but 
in its centre there is a primitive Buddhist ceiling consisting of four 
stones placed diagonally upon the architrayes and crowned by a flat 
