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I measured it. This would make the base of the mound about 1,400 
feet, which agrees with the size of 50 begahs, or 1,400,000 square feet, 
which is popularly attributed to it by the villagers themselves. But 
the fields are strewn with broken bricks for upwards of 1,000 feet to 
the northward, and for 500 or 600 feet to the eastward, where there 
are the remains of several temples. The area actually covered by 
ruins is not less than 2,000 feet square, or upwards of 1} mile in 
circuit, which shows that Barikhar must once have been a good sized 
town, but I strongly doubt the story of the Brahmans which attributes 
its foundation to Vairat Raja. The name is written by the people 
themselves Badishar @S\9t , although it is pronounced Barikhar, and 
I believe that similarity of sound alone has led to the identification of 
Barikhar with Bariyakhera and Vairat Raja. 
XXTIL.—DEORYIA AND DEWAL, 
360. I couple these two places together, because they actually 
form parts of the old nameless capital of the Bdchhal Rajas, who ruled 
over Kastern Rohilkhand and Western Oudh before the time of the 
Katehriyas. Dewal itself is a small village, which has received its 
name from atemple in which is deposited a very perfect inscription 
dated in Samvat 1049, or A. D. 992. The opposite village is called 
Iléhabas by the Muhammadans, but this name is scarcely known to 
the people, who usually call it Garh-Gdjana. The inscription is chiefly 
remarkable for the clean and beautiful manner in which the letters 
have been engraved ; and its perfect state makes it the more valuable 
as it furnishes us with a complete specimen of the alphabet of the 
Kutila character, in which it is said to be engraved. James Prinsep 
gave aspecimen of the characters, along with a translation of the 
inscription, in the Asiatie Society’s Journal for 1837, page 777. But 
the copy from which he framed his alphabet was made by hand, and 
although it is wonderfully accurate as a mere transcript of the words, 
yet it is very faulty as a copy of the individual letters. This is the 
more to be regretted, as the alphabet thus framed from an inaccurate 
copy has become the standard specimen of the Kutela characters’ 
Now, the term Kutila means “ bent,’”’ and as all the letters of the 
inscription have a bottom stroke or tail, which is turned, or “ bent,” 
to the right, Tinfer that the alphabet was named Kuwiila from this 
