1865.] Report of the Archeological Survey. 1i7 
quadrangular terrace, 600 in length by 500 feet in breadth, and, as well 
as I could ascertain from an excavation at the top, it is the remains of a 
large square temple. Close by on.the east, and within the quadrangle, 
there are the ruins of two small temples. To the eastward of the Jwala 
Devi temple, there is a curious circular, flat-topped mound of earth, 68 
feet in diameter, surrounded by a brick wall from 7 to 11 feet in height. 
It is called Rdmgir Gosain-ka-tila, or “the mound of Rémgir Gosain,” 
from which I infer that it is the burial place of a modern Gosain. To 
the south of the fort, near the temple of Jégesar Mahadeva, there is a 
third large mound, 22 feet in height, which was once crowned by a 
temple 20 feet square inside. The bricks have only recently been 
removed, and the square core of earth still remains perfect. To the 
_ westward of this last, there is a fourth mound, on which I traced the 
Tuins of a temple 30 feet square standing in the midst of a raised 
- quadrangle about 500 feet square. Besides these there are ten smaller 
_ mounds, which make up altogether 14, or just one-half the number of 
the Brahmanical temples which are mentioned by Hwen Thsang. 










203. The only ruin which appeared to me to be of undoubted 
Buddhist origin was a solid brick mound 20 feet in height, to the 
south-west of Jagesar Mahadeva, and close to the small village of 
Khargpur. The base of the mound is upwards of 200 feet in diameter, 
The solid brick-work at the top is still 60 feet thick, but as it is 
broken all round, its original diameter must have been much greater, 
probably not less than 80 feet. But even this larger diameter is too small 
ra Stwpa of 200 feet in height of the hemispherical form of Asoka’s 
time; a Stupa of that early period, even when provided with both 
plinth and cupola, would not have exceeded 100 feet in height. Unless 
therefore we may suppose that there is a mistake of 100 feet in the text 
of Hwen Thsang, I feel quite unable to offer any identification 
Whatever of the Buddhist remains of Govisana as described by the 
Chinese pilgrim. 
VI—RAMNAGAR, OR AHICHHATRA, 
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204. From Govisana Hwen Thsang proceeded to the south-east 
0 Ui, or 66 miles, to Ahi-chi-ta-lo, or Ahichhatra. This once famous 
place still preserves its ancient name as Ahichhatr, although it has 
been deserted for many centuries, Its history reaches back to B. C, 

