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leads to the nearest portions of the ruins, which have afforded materials 
for all the buildings in the large village of Deoriya. The exact extent 
of the fort is not known, but the position enclosed by the Katni Nala 
is about 6,000 feet in length from N. W.S., and 4,000 feet in breadth, 
and the fort is said to be somewhat less than half a kos, or just 
_about half a mile in length. The bricks are of large size, 13 by 9 by 
2 inches, which shows considerable antiquity, but the statues of kan- 
kar are all Brahmanical, such as the goddess Devi, Siva and his wife, 
as Gawri-Sankar, and two arghas of lingams. These figures are said 
to be discovered only in the foundations of the buildings, which, if true 
would seem to show that the existing remains are the ruins of Muham- 
madan works constructed of Hindu materials. 
363. The Katni Nala is an artificial canal drawn from the Wala 
yiver near Sohds, 10 miles to the south-east of Pilibhit, and 6 miles 
to the north of Dewal. Its general course is from north to south, 
excepting where it winds round the old fort of Garha-Khera, alter 
which it resumes its southerly course and falls into the Kanhaut Nala, 
about 3 miles to the south of the ruins. Its whole course is just 20 
miles in length. All the maps are wrong in giving the name of Katni 
Nala to the Méla river, instead of to the artificial canal which joins 
the Mdla and Kanhaut rivers. The canal varies in width from 30 and 
40 feet to 100 feet, and even more, at the places where it is usually 
forded. Its very name of Katnz Nala, or the “cut stream,” is sufti- 
cient to prove that it is artificial. But this fact is distinctly stated in 
the inscription, which records that Raja Lalla “made the beautiful 
and holy Katha-Nadi.” That this was the Katni Nala, which is 
drawn from the Mala river, is proved by the previous verse, which 
records that the Raja presented to the Brahmans certain villages 
“shaded by pleasant trees, and watered by the Nirmala Nadi.” This 
name is correctly translated by James Prinsep as “ pellucid stream,” 
which though perfectly applicable to the limpid waters of the Mala 
river, is evidently the name of the stream itself, and not a mere epithet 
descriptive of the clearness of its waters. And as the canal was drawn 
from the Nirmala River, so that villages on its banks are correctly 
described as being watered by it. 
364. The inscription goes on to say that Raja Lalla and his wife 
Lakshmi “ made many groves, gardens, lakes, and temples,” Prinsep 
