1865.] - Report of the Archeological Survey. 171 
of Europe will be able to give a more satisfactory interpretation of 
Asoka’s edicts than has hitherto been made, even_with the aid of all 
the learning of Burnouf and Wilson. 
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IV.—_MADAWAR, OR MADIPUR. 
191. From Srughna the Chinese pilgrim proceeded to Mo-ti-pu-lo, 
or Madipur, to the east of the Ganges, a distance of 800 lv, or 133 
miles, Madipur has been identified by M. St. Martin with J/anddwar, 
a large old town in Western Rohilkhand near Bijnor. I had made the 
same identification myself before reading M. St. Martin’s remarks, and 
I am now able to confirm it by a personal examination of the locality. 
The actual distance from Paocta on the Jumnato Manddwar vid Harid- 
war, is not more than 110 miles by the present roads; but as it 
would have been considerably more by the old native tracks leading 
from village to village, the distance recorded by Hwen Thsang is most 
probably not far from the truth, more especially when we remember 
that he paid a visit to Ma-yu-lo, or Mayurapura, now Myapoor, near 
Hardwar at the head of the Ganges Canal. But the identity of the 
site of Maddwar with Madipur is not dependent on this one distance 
alone, as will be seen from the subsequent course of the pilgrim, which 
most fully confirms the position already derived from his previous route. 
192. The name of the town is written astat, Maddwar, the 
Munddwur of the maps. According to Johari Lal, Chaodri and 
Kanungo of the place, Waddwar was a deserted site in Samvat 1171, 
or A. D. 1114, when his ancestor Dwdrka Dds, an Agarwila Baniya, 
accompanied by Katdr Mall, came from Mordri in the Mirat District, 
and occupied the old mound. The present town of Maddwar contains 
7,000 inhabitants, and is rather more than three-quarters of a mile in 
length by half a mile in breadth. But the old mound which represents 
the former town is not more than half a mile square. It has an aver- 
age height of 10 feet above the rest of the town, and it abounds with 
large bricks, a certain sign of antiquity. In the middle of the mound 
there is a ruined fort, 300 feet square, with an elevation of 6 or 7 feet 
above the rest of the city. To the north-east, distant about one mile 
from the fort, there is a large village, on another mound, called 
Madiya ; and between the two lies a large tank called Kinda Tal, 
surrounded by numerous small mounds which are said to be the re- 
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