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" Budhpore is a small village situated on the banks of the Cossye 

 river, and between it and the Parasa hills, the highest point of which 

 forms a station of the Great Trigonometrical Survey. Long. E. 86°. 43'. 

 Lat. N. 23°. 07'. The greater portion of the ruins, comprising pro- 

 bably the remains of some four temples, are close to the village on the 

 North East side of it ; and at a short distance from them, and further 

 still from the village is a large tank, the largest fn fact that I have 

 seen for some miles in this direction. 



" An annual mela or fair is held at Budhpore during the Churruck 

 Poojah festival, to which, amongst other things, are brought, I under- 

 stand, numbers of. young birds for sale, chiefly the Shama, Kittacinda 

 macroura, Grmel — and young parrakeets, Palceornis rosa, Bodd. — I 

 imagine that it is from these fairs, which appear to be usual in many 

 places in the district at this particular festival, many of those birds are 

 collected which eventually find their way for sale to Calcutta — and are 

 said to come from the Rajmehal hills. 



" Besides the main ruins, there are several carved slabs scat- 

 tered about in different places, which I propose attempting to de- 

 scribe in detail. To begin with the chief ruins, which are now 

 crowned by a modern Hindoo temple, not more than 12 or 14 years 

 old according to my informant's account, and which is built on a rising 

 mound formed of the stones and debris of the largest of the four 

 original temples. The old temples were built apparently of nothing 

 but hewn stones,many of which appear to have been elegantly carved 

 into mouldings for corners, &c. The modern structure is of brick, and in 

 honor of the approaching festival was being whitewashed at the time 

 of my visit. 



" In front of it, the remains of two old archways and an entrance 

 court are still standing — and within a stone's throw about a third of a 

 small square-looking building, evidently meant to flank the entrance to 

 the old temple. This is to the left hand on approaching the temple ; 

 a heap of ruins to the right marks the site of a similar " lodge." 

 Between the two was evidently a raised causeway, of which some steps 

 and a hexagonal pillar or two, still stand. The object of these pillars 

 which are about 5 ft. high and a foot in diameter, each cut out of one 

 block of stone, I cannot imagine. The tops of the two ancient arch- 

 ways are each formed of one or two very large slabs of stone which 



