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were discovered, of which one is an inscribed pillar of a Buddhist railing 
of middle age. The pillar is broken, but the remaining portions of the 
socket holes are sufficient for the restoration of the original dimensions. 
The fragment is 1 foot 11 inches in length, with a section of 83 inches 
by 4 inches. The socket holes are 8 inches long, and 43 inches apart, — 
which in a pillar of two rails would give a height of 3 feet 24 inches, 
or of 4 feet 3 inches in a pillar of three rails. The face of the pillar 
is sculptured with six rows of naked standing figures, there being 
five figures in the lowest row, and only four figures in each of the 
others. On one of the sides there is the following short inscription 
in four lines of the age of the Guptas :— 
Acharya Indranandi Sishya Mahddari Parswamatisya Kottari. 
The last word but one might perhaps be read as patisya ; but the 
remainder of the inscription is quite clear. I understand it to record — 
the gift of “ Mahddari, the disciple of the teacher Indranandi, to the 
temple (Kottari) of Parswamati.” Perhaps the term Kottari may be 
preserved in the name of Katdri Khera, by which the mound is now 
known. ‘ 
222. The other sculptured stones are not of much interest. The 
largest is a broken statue of a standing figure, 3 feet high by 2 feet 
broad, which appears to be naked. The head, the feet, and the right 
arm are gone. A second small stone, 1 foot long and 5 inches broad, 
bears the figures of the Navagraha, or “ Nine Planets.” On the back 
there is a short inscription of only eight letters, of which two are 
somewhat doubtful. I read the whole as Sahada, Bhima, Devindra, 
but the word Bhima is very doubtful. A third stone, 2} feet long 
and 1} feet square, is the fragment of a large pillar, with a lion sculp- 
tured on each of its four faces. The naked figures of these sculptures 
belong to a somewhat late period of Buddhism, after the introduction 
of the Tantrika doctrines, which, as we learn from Skanda Gupta’s 
inscription on the Bhitari Pillar, were prevalent during the time of th ; 
later Guptas, in the 3rd and 4th centuries A. D. As the forms of the 
letters of these inscriptions are also those of the Gupta period, we may 
conclude with some certainty that the Kottarz, or temple, of Parswa- 
mati was erected before the fall of the Gupta dynasty in A. D. 319. t 
223. Four hundred feet to the south of the great bastion, and 
close to the south-west angle of the fort, there is another extensive 
