212 A few notes on antiquities near Jtiblulpoor. [No. 3, 
The height of the knoll was (I should judge) scarcely short of GO 
f ee t _its diameter, before it was enlarged by the ejection of rubbish 
from the late excavations, about 250. The excavations were carried 
in a gully nearly all round the centre of the knoll, at a height of 
12 or 1 5 feet above the ground, and leaving a solid centre of nearly 
100 feet in diameter, so that the section was something like the 
sketch Fig. 1. Every part of this excavation disclosed masonry such 
as I have described, so that the building must have had a diameter 
of something more than 100 feet, whatever it was. 
This mound is called by the people Karanbel. They told us that 
there was formerly a temple on the top, the stones of which were 
removed by a certain Nicholson Sahib to build a biidge. 
Whether this was the temple of which Col. Cunningham had heard? 
I cannot say. But evidently such a structure as these excavated re- 
mains indicate could scarcely have been the mere base of a Hindu tem- 
ple. I do not know what it could have been except a Buddhist Tope. 
Mr. Preston the district Engineer of the G. I. P. Railway did not 
regard it as a luilding properly speaking at all, but as a pile of stones 
which had been gathered together for the purposes of building. 
This seems to me out of the question. The stones are luilt beyond 
doubt. 
If I am right in my conjecture of its original purpose, some of 
these stones will have had a curious history. 
They have first formed part of the primitive building, the sculp- 
tured remains of which have been built into this mass of masomy 5 
They have then been piled into a Buddhist Dagoba ; 
Next they have afforded material for a Hindoo temple ; 
And, lastly, they are being quarried and hewn for a Railway bridge 
over that “ ancient river” the Nerbudda. 
What shall be their next destination, who shall guess ? 
This place has evidently been the site of a great mass of buildings, 
probably of a great city. 
There are several other mounds adjoining, which have been the 
sites of extensive buildings. On one of these to the S. of Karanbel 
are traceable the foundations of an extensive edifice by the excava- 
tions which have been made to get out the stone. 
Another mound to the westward of Karanbel is for 300 yards (and 
X know not how much further) covered with fragments of building 
