L866 ] Antiquities in th Gayd District. 55 



In a corner of the village near the temple, there arc a great number 

 of lingams collected, of all -i/.rs. many with 3 and 4 sculptured faces. 



To the east of the temple there is a small tank : OD the banks there are 



several snmadhs or tombs, of the form which is so common at Boodh 



(Java. 



Palee. — Ponr miles nearer Gaya is another village called Palee, which 

 -.•mis to have had several temple- ; one at least was Buddhist) and of 

 the same form as the one at Nair and at Poonawa. Judging by the few 

 pillars still standing (see Photograph No. 33, ) a great number of pillars 

 have been removed. "When I Last visited the place, quarrying for 

 bricks was being actively carried on. Several large lingams had been 

 dug ouf of the mass of rubbish, and also a hull of the usual form, so 

 that the temple, which was most likely originally Buddhist, had subse- 

 quently been converted into a Hindoo one. A tew paces t«> the wesi 

 close to the road there i> a large lingam in situ, with a peepul tree 

 growing in the interstices : Bee Photograph No. 3 1. Close by i> the lintel 



Of a Buddhist temple door, and the side p«.-4s are a little distance apart 



under a peepul tree : see Photograph No. 35. For some distance round 

 there arc trace- of temples, but those described -eeni to bave been the 



only ones of any si/.<\ 



Almost directly south from Koiich is a large village called Kabiu, 

 and adjoining it is a rather large tort marked Mudun in the maps, but 

 I could find no local name tor it. From the extensive mounds in every 

 direction, and the appearance and size of the tort, it is of much earlier 

 date than the generality of the mud torts so common in this district. 

 It is attributed to the Kole Rajahs by the natives, and this is the case 

 with everything which is earlier than the advent of the Mussulmans. 

 I was disappointed in not finding any figures or inscriptions in tin; 

 neighbourhood. There are one or two pillars of black chlorite which 

 must have belonged to some old Hindoo Temple, but the natives in 

 formed me they had been collected for the building of a mosque by 

 some former inhabitant of the village. There is a granite stone, itseli 

 originally a part of a pillar, inserted in a large well, but which has 

 proved to be the dedication of the well by BOme obscure individual : sec 

 Photograph No. 36. 



Aboul <) miles to the south-wesl IS a large village and bazar called 

 Chirkawan ; it is the principal place in the Pergunnah of that name. It 



