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and fish ponds still surround the place. Indeed, the trees are parti- 
cularly luxuriant, owing to the high level of the water which is within 
5 or 6 feet of the surface. For the same reason the tanks are numer- 
ous and always full of water. The largest of these is the Dron Sagar, | 
which, as well as the fort, is said to have been constructed by the five 
Pandu brothers for the use of their teacher Drona. The tank is only 
600 feet square, but it is esteemed very holy, and is much frequented by 
pilgims on their way to the source of the Ganges. Its high banks are 
covered with Sati monuments of recent date. The walls of the fort are 
built of large massive bricks, 15 inches by 10 inches by 23 inches, which 
are always a certain sign ofantiquity. The general height of the walls 
is 30 feet above the fields; but the whole is now in complete ruin, and 
covered with dense jungle. Shallow ditches still exist on all sides — 
except the east. The interior is very uneven, but the mass has a mean 
height of about 20 feet above the country. There are two low open- 
ings in the ramparts, one to the north-west and the other to the south- 
west, which now serve as entrances to the jungle, and which the people 
say were the old gates of the fort. 
202. There dre some small temples on the western bank of the Dron ' 
Sdgar; but the great place of worship is the modern temple of Jwala 
Devi, 600 feet to the eastward of the fort. This goddess is also called 
Ujaini Devi, and a great fair is held‘in her honour on the 8th day of — 
the waning moon of Chaitra. Other smaller temples contain symbols of 
Mahadeva under the titles of Bulesar, Muktesar, Ndgndth, and Jdgesar. 
But all of these temples are of recent date; the sites of the more ancient 
fanes being marked by mounds of various dimensions from 10 to upwards 
of 30 feet in height. The most remarkable of these mounds is situated © 
inside the northern wall of the fort, above which the ruins rise to a height 
of 52 feet above the country, and 22 feet above the ramparts, This 
mound is called Bhimgaja, or Bhimgada, that is, Bhim’s club, by which 
I understand a large lingam of Mahadeva, Were it not for this name, — 
I should be inclined to look upon this huge mound as the remains of 
a palace, as I succeeded in tracing the walls of what appeared to have 
been a large room, 72 feet in length from north to south, by 63 feet in 
width, the walls being 6 feet thick, About 500 feet beyond the § 
north-east angle of the fort there is another remarkable mound which — j 
is rather more than 34 feet in height, It stands in the midst of a a 

