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been many small shrines or " chaityas" in connection with monasteries 

 on mounds, which latter may have been built of bricks, which said 

 bricks, which is commonly the case here, have been annexed and 

 used by the surrounding villages. 



I can, I am sorry to say, obtain no written notice of these mounds, 

 and they are far beyond the range of oral tradition. A collection of 

 the best of these carved stones might be made here by Government 

 at a very little expense ; but no one in these parts appears interested 

 in the subject. 



Jusrau, visited February 13^, 1866. About two miles west of 

 Anjani village, described in a former paper, lies the village of Jusrau. 

 It forms part of the titular Raja of Mainpuri's zamindari or estate, 

 and has, I have little doubt, been plundered of its best archaeological 

 remains in the shape of pillars and capitals by former residents of 

 Mainpuri, from which it is scarcely three miles distant. The last 

 attempt would, however, seem to have secured immunity for the 

 future from these spoliations. 



The " oldest inhabitant," a grey -haired Brahman, informed me 

 gravely, pointing as he spoke to a large block of kankar which had 

 once formed part of the ancient Buddhist shrine at this place, that 

 the Raja had sent for this to be used in building ; that he had laden 

 it on a two-bullock cart ; but that the cart had broken down and the 

 bullocks been drowned whilst crossing the river Isan, not very 

 distant, in the sacrilegious attempt to remove it. He added that the 

 fresh cart and bullocks then sent by the Raja brought it back with 

 ease, and restored it to the spot where I then saw it. So alarmed 

 are the villagers, that they will not use the smallest, plainest stone 

 for any purpose, and in proof of their sincerity, they shewed me their 

 great need of a good well, saying that they were too poor to burn 

 bricks for it, yet they dared not use the blocks lying about in 

 profusion. And this was the more curious, as the remains about to 

 be described, are thoroughly Buddhist, and not at all Brahminical 

 in their character, whereas the village is a Brahman one. 



The cart track leaves the high road from Mainpuri to Eta, 

 shortly after the 4th mile, and crosses a sandy expanse, now 

 covered with crops of barley, &c. until it terminates in the village. 

 To the east of this are remains of what had been formerly two village 





