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1861.] A few notes on antiquities near Jubbulpoor. 
staircase ascending to a temple of Shiva under the name of Gouri 
Shunkur. The temple is paltry and modern, hut it is surrounded by a 
circular detached colonnade looking inwards, which if not itself an- 
cient has apparently been built up of very ancient remains. This 
colonnade contains a great number of female figures more or less 
broken and defaced, some young and plump, others emaciated by aus- 
terities. They are called the 6-1 Jognees. 
At Bhera Ghat below we saw the body of one of the Gosains 
belonging to this establishment brought down for commission to the 
waters of the Nerbudda. He was just dead, and had almost the 
appearance of life. The head and neck were decked with yellow 
flowers. The body was carefully placed in the Buddha-like attitude 
of the images described above and tied up in a sheet, with a gourd of 
water, food, a pipe for smoking ganja, and a small wooden hoe. 
About lj- mile further east, and above a perpendicular fall in the 
Nerbudda, were seen on the high bank shapeless remains of stone- 
buildings which might have been anything, having become mere 
overgrown mounds. In one a square chamber was discernible. Still 
further, near the village of Gopalpoor and not far from Lamhata 
Ghat, are several Hindoo temples of old character with low pyramidal 
roofs, but nothing very interesting in the architecture. A larger 
building, now abandoned, has apparently been erected after Mahome- 
dan ideas. It is a square, with a very handsome ribbed dome of a 
beautiful elliptical form, quite different from the ordinary Mahome- 
dan dome, in excellent stone work, and probably 20 or 25 feet in diame- 
ter, resting on walls not more than 2 i feet thick, and as yet quite 
sound, though the peepul trees have taken root and will soon bring 
it to ruin. I apprehend it was Hindoo in. spite of its form.. 
February 2nd, 1861. 
