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Allah inscribed on a tablet suspended by a rope. The appearance of 
the tablet and rope is so like that of the Hindu bell and chain that one 
is almost tempted to believe that the Muhammadam architect must have 
simply chiselled away the bolder points of the Hindu ornament to suit 
his own design. But whether this may haye been the case or not, it is 
impossible to miss seeing that the Hindu bell and chain must have 
been directly suggestive of the Muhammadan tablet and cord. The 
Masjid and tombs are surrounded by a wall with four small towers at 
the corners, and an entrance gate on the south side. In the steps 
leading up to this entrance I found in 1838 a broken figure of Shastz, 
the goddess of fecundity, and a pedestal with a short inscription, dated 
in Samvat 1193, or A. D. 1136. The people also affirm that a large 
statue formerly stood under a tree close by. All of these are now gone, 
but the fact that two of them were built into the entrance steps is 
sufficient to show that the mound on which the Masjid stands must 
once have been the site of some important Hindu building. 
265. The two statues in the village of Singh Bhawani were dis- 
covered about 100 years ago in a field close by the brick hovel in 
which they are now placed. The people call them Rdm and Lakshman, 
and the attendant Brahman does so too, although the figures have 
eight arms each, and although the Fish, Tortoise, Boar and Lion 
incarnations of Vishnu are represented round the head of one of them. 
Hach of the figures is 3 feet in height, but the whole sculpture is 
6 feet. Vishnu is also known by the discus (chakra), and club (gadd), 
from which he derives his well known titles of chakradhar and gadddhar. 
Along with these sculptures there are some other figures, of which the 
most: important is a statue of the Tantrika Buddhist goddess, Vajré 
Vardhi. The figure is 2} fect in height and has three heads, of 
which one is porcine, and the usual number of seven hogs is represented 
on the pedestal. Outside the building there are figures of Durga slay- 
ing the Maheshaswr, or buffalo demon, and of Siva and Parbati sitting 
on the bull Nandi. In the neighbouring village of Kwtlupur I found 
the lintel of a temple doorway with a figure of Vishnu in the middle, 
showing that the temple had been dedicated to that god. He is represent- 
ed sitting on the Garuda, or eagle, and holding the club and discus, 
266. The remaining place of any note is the Swraj-kund, or 
“Tank of the Sun,” to the south-east of Makarandnagar. It is now 
