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which properly means the whole venture of goods belonging to a party 
of Banjaras, but which is also applied to the places at which they halt. 
I think therefore that the name of Tadwa may possibly refer to the old 
name of 7’u-wei as it is written by Fa Hian. There can, however, be no 
doubt as to the identity of the two places, as Tadwa is a very old site, 
which is still covered with brick ruins. According to tradition, the town 
belonged to Raja Suhir dal, after whose death it was destroyed by the 
Muhammadans, and remained uninhabited until about one hundred 
years ago, when a Bairagi, named Ajudhya Das, established himself 
under the banyan tree, and discovered the female figure which is now 
worshipped as Sita Mai. The present village is situated amongst brick 
ruins one quarter of a mile to the north of the road leading from 
Akaona to Bahraich. All the fields aroundare strewn with broken bricks 
and within 1,000 feet of the village to the north-west there is a mound 
of brick ruins 800 feet long from east to west, and 300 feet broad. 
Beyond the mound, and to the north of the village, there is a large 
irregular shaped sheet of water, nearly half a mile in length, called 
Sita-Deva Tal. But this name cannot be older than the discovery of 
the statue which is attributed to Sita. 
354. The west end of the mass of ruins is very low, but it is 
covered with broken walls and fine trees, and was therefore most pro- 
bably the site of the monastic establishment. The general height of the 
east end is 16 feet above the fields, but rises to 20 feet at the south- 
west corner. At this point the mound is formed of solid brick-work, 
which after close examination I discovered to be the remains of a large 
Stupa. As two different measurements gave a diameter of not less 
than 70 feet, this Stwpa must have been one of*the largest and most 
important in the famous province of Uttara Kosala. Hwen Thsang 
mentions only two Stupas at this place, one to the south of the town, 
being built on the spot where Kasyapa Buddha had performed his 
meditations under a banyan tree, and the other to the north of the 
town, containing the complete body of Kasyapa. This is also con- 
firmed by its size, as Fa Hian calls this Stwpa agreat one. The Stupa 
on the mound must certainly represent the latter monument, because 
the tank precludes the possibility of any other having existed to the 
northward of it. I wished very much to have made an excavation in 
this mound, but the presence of a lingam of Mahadeo on the top of it, 

