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madans have long since made a clean sweep of the district and razed to 
the ground every building, whether secular or religious, that had been 
erected by its former Hindu rulers. I have now been over every part of 
it, and the few fragments shown in the accompanying Plate X are posi- 
tively the sum total of all the antiquities that I have noticed. The 
six short pillars are of the medieval Hindu period and may be ascribed 
to one of the Dor Rajas, about the year 1000 A. D. They had been 
buried under the steps of a small mosque on the highest part of the old 
town of Bulandshahr. In digging the foundations of a house on the 
opposite side of the same street was found the curious stone sculptured 
with three miniature temples. These are of different design, and if found 
separately, I might have been inclined to refer them to different architec- 
tural periods. But similar forms may be seen in conjunction on the 
front of the temples at Khajuraho, which are known to be of the tenth 
century A. D., and the very archaic type of one of these designs must be 
attributed to religious conservatism. The high medieval column is one 
of a pair found a few years ago on the margin of what was formerly a 
large masonry tank outside the walls, said to have been constructed by 
Raji Hardatt, or one of his descendants. The companion column was 
sent off to Merath, 40 miles away, by the Muhammadan gentleman into 
whose possession it had come, to be worked up into a house he was 
building there. The one shown in the plate I rescued from his stables, 
where it had been thrown down on the ground and was used by his grass- 
cutters to sharpen their tools on. The circular pillar with the coil of 
human-headed snakes at the base is, as already mentioned, from Ahar; as 
also the medizval door-jamb and the block, that supports it, carved with 
rows of temple facades in the style of the Nasik caves. This last is pro- 
bably the oldest of the group. The second door-jamb found in the court- 
yard of the mosque at Bulandshahr is comparatively modern. More 
intimate local knowledge may possibly bring to light a few other ancient 
remains, but they are not likely to be numerous; for stone, which had 
to be brought from a considerable distance, has always been very sparingly 
used in the neighbourhood, while brick is a material, which however well 
worked must ordinarily cease to possess either interest or beauty when 
reduced to ruin. The only other ancient inscription, of which I have 
heard as belonging to the district, is the one of which a transcript and 
translation by Dr. Rajendraldla Mitra were given in Vol. XLIII of the 
As. Society’s Journal. ‘This is dated in the reign of Skanda Gupta, in the 
year 146, which, if the Saka era is intended, would correspond with 
224 A.D. It was dug up at the village of Indor, in a Ahera of unusual 
elevation and extent, which adjoins the high road between Anipshahr 
and Aligarh, about 10 miles from the former town. In the inscription 
