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On the south side of the ridge, in sight of Mira Sahib's tomb, is 

 an Imambara, a modern edifice, built altogether of new materials ; 

 and a few paces distant from it are two small structures, one in front 

 of the other, which, although of recent erection, are partly composed 

 of old materials. Each building possesses four ancient pillars of the 

 Buddhist type, and lying about in various places are four pillars more, 

 live kulaees, two architraves, and seven bases, one of the latter being 

 richly carved. All these are the spoils of some ancient temple or 

 monastery. 



Remains <>j Buddhist Chaitya, No. II, and Buddhist Monastery^ 

 No. 77., el Tilia Ndld and Maqdum Sahib. 



We have ehosen to unite these remains, and to speak of them under 

 one head, because, although separated and standing in different 

 Mahallas, yet they arc near enough together to uive rise to the sup- 

 position, that they may have been atone time connected. There is 

 no question in our minds that at least one monastery stood in tin's 

 neighbourhood, which is very rich in old carved Fragments of stone 

 scattered about amongst the walls and foundations of dwelling-houses 

 and in divers other places. Perhaps it may lie questioned whether 

 the ruins at Tilia Nala, now forming part of a deserted mosque, were 

 originally a portion of a monastery or a portion of a temple, but our 

 own opinion is in favour of the latter ; yet even though this conjeelurc 

 were true, it would still be probable that the temple was within the 

 precincts of a large monastery and was considered to be a portion of it. 



The remains at Tilia Nala are immediately above the Nala on the 

 high ground of its left bank, a very short distance only from the 

 point where it runs into the Ganges, and close to the main street 

 under which the stream flows. The ruins not only overhang the 

 brook, but there is no doubt that at one time they must have extend- 

 ed nearly, if not entirely, across its present bed. They consist of 

 seventeen massive square columns in three rows, namely four double 

 columns in the front row, four single ones in the second, and rive in 

 the third or innermost row. Between the third and fourth pillars or 

 the last row is the Singhasan of Buddha, an immense slab of stone, 

 nine feet three inches in length and five and a half in breadth, retreat- 

 ing beyond the boundary wall behind, into which all the pillars of 



