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mains of buildings. Originally these two places would appear to have 
formed one large town about 14 mile in length by half a mile in 
breadth, or 34 miles in circuit. The Kanuwngo states that Iladdwar 
formed part of the dominions of Pithora Raja, and that it possessed 
a large Hindu temple of stone, which was afterwards destroyed by one 
of the Ghori Sultans, who built the present Jama Masjid on its site, 
and with its materials. The stones of the mosque are squared blocks 
of soft grey sandstone, and as many of them exhibit cramp-holes on the 
outside, there can be no doubt that they must originally have belong- 
ed to some other building. 
198. To the south-east of the town there is a large, deep, irregu- 
larly shaped piece of water called Pirwdlz Tal. It is nearly half a 
mile in length, but not more than 300 feet broad in its widest part. 
It is filled in the rains by a small channel carrying the drainage of the 
country from the north-east, and its overflow falls into the Malini 
River, about two miles distant. This pool is only part of a natural 
channel of drainage which has been deepened by the excavation of earth 
for the bricks of the town. But in spite of this evident origin of the 
Madéwar tank, it was gravely asserted by the Buddhists to have been 
produced by an earthquake which accompanied the death of a celebrat- 
ed saint named Vimala Mitra. 
194. According te Hwen Thsang Wadipur was 20 li, or 34 miles, 
in circuit, which agrees very closely with what would appear to be 
the most probable size of the old town. The King was a Sudra, who 
cared nothing for Buddhism, but worshipped the Devas, There were 
12 Buddhist monasteries, containing about 800 monks, who were 
mostly attached to the school of the Sarvdstivddas, and there were 
also about 50 Brahmanical temples. To the south of the town, at 4 
or 5 li, or # of a mile, there was a small monastery in which Gunapra- 
bha was said to have composed 100 works ; and at half a mile to the 
north of this there was a great monastery which was famous as the 
scene of Sanghabhadra’s sudden death from chagrin, when he was over= 
come in argument by Vasubandhu. His relics were deposited ina — 
Stwpa in the midst of a mango grove only 200 paces to the north-west. 
of the monastery. These two chiefs of Buddhism lived about the 
beginning of the Chirstian era, and the Stwpa was still standing in 
A. D. 634, at the time of Hwen Thsang’s visit. There is no trace 

