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as the fort is stated to have been repaired by Salim Shah, whilst a very 
old ruinous masjid stands on the west mound. The fort itself is a 
small place, its northern face being only 550 feet long, its eastern and 
western faces 550 feet each, whilst its south face is but 250 feet. The 
greater part of the stone work of the south-east tower has fallen into 
the river, where many of the stones are now lying, and much of the 
eastern wall has also disappeared, the stones being very valuable, in a 
stoneless country, for the sharpening of tools of all kinds. The en- 
trance gate was on the south side, near the river bastion just mention- 
ed. I obtained coins of many of the early Muhammadan Kings, from 
Nasir-uddin Mahmud Ghori down to Akbar, but not a single specimen 
of any Hindu coinage, although I was informed that coins bearing 
figures are found every year during the rainy season. 
303. I may here mention that I heard of another place of Hindu 
pilgrimage on the north bank of the Gomati River, at a spot called 
Set-Barah that is Sweta-Vardha, or ‘the white Boar,” 15 kos, or 30 
miles, from Sultanpur towards Lucknow. Two annual fairs are held 
there —the first on the 9th day of the waxing moon of Chaitra, and 
the second on the L5th day of the waxing moon of Kartik, when it is 
said that about fifty thousand people assemble to bathe. The former 
period is connected with the history of Rama Chandra, as it is com- — 
monly known as the Rdém-navami Tirath or “ Rama’s ninth (day) 
place of pilgrimage.” I could not learn anything regarding the origin 
of the name of Set Bardh. 
XVITI—SAKETA, OR AJUDHYA. 
804. Much difficulty has been felt regarding the position of Fa 
Hian’s “great kingdom of Sha-chi, and of Hwen Thsang’s Visdkhd, — 
with its enormous number of heretics,” or Brahmanists; but I hope 
to show in the most satisfactory manner that these two places are 
identical, and that they are also the same as the Sdketa and Ajudhya 
of the Hindus. The difficulty has arisen chiefly from an erroneous — 
bearing recorded by Fa Hian, who places Shewez, or Srdvasti, to the 
south of Sha-chi, while Hwen Thsang locates it to the north-east, and 
partly from his erroneous distance of 7 + 3 + 10 = 20 Yojans, instead 
" of 80, from the well-known city of Sankisa. The bearing is shown 
to be erroneous by the route of a Hindu pilgrim from the banks of — 

