18G7.] On the Antiquities of Mainpuri. 157 



Panduwala, I found some more slabs, some of the three headed 

 divinity and one bearing a very curious figure. An old Brahmin, 

 a resident of the village, told me that it represented " Jangdeo 

 Kumar." The mailed figure with his armed supporters seemed 

 almost an ancient gothic knight, but the curious tracery of fishes 

 surrounding the warrior, somewhat destroyed the illusion. I found 

 nothing more worth recording during my stay in the Terai, but 

 I came on continued indications of what once had been : here a 

 chipped and broken cornice near a cattle " Got." stuck up on end by 

 the ignorant Panaris as a " Deota," there a great slab of hewn stone 

 lying alone among a clump of bamboos in the middle of the forest. 

 That these remains extend through the whole length of the 

 Rohilcund and Kumaon Terai, I should think there is little doubt. 

 I was told that at B/anmagar in the Kumaon Terai, there were 

 some very fine slabs and carved stones, but I was unable to make my 

 way there. 



My remarks on these interesting relics are of necessity meagre, but 

 I hope that my drawings may induce some of the antiquarians of the 

 Society to throw some light on these ruins in the wilderness. I can 

 find no mention of these ruins in Batten's work on Gurhwal and 

 Kumaon, although that writer mentions the Dwarahath frieze and 

 carvings in Kumaon. I believe I am the first European who has seen 

 the Mandhal temple, or indeed any of these ruins, as none of the dis- 

 trict or forest officers had ever heard of their existence, until I men- 

 tioned them. 



Notes on ancient Remains in the 3£ainpuri District. — By 

 C. Horne, Esq. B. C. S. 



[Received 8th June, 1867.] 



Asauli. — This large village is within two miles of Mainpnri to the 

 north east and can be best approached by the old cemetery, from 

 which it is perhaps three -fourths of a mile distant. 



