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the waxing moon in the month of Magha, Samvat year 1829, Sha Manik- 
chand, son of Bulakidasa of the Ganghigotra and Osa family, an inhabitant 
of Hugli, having repaired the temple on the Ratnagiri hill in Rajagriha, 
placed the two lotus-like feet of the Jina Sri Parsvanatha there.” I 
conclude with the oldest inscription, which is on Sonargir — “ On the 9th of 
the waxing moon in the month of Phalguna, in the Samvat year 1504 
of the Jatada Gotra, Ramamala Varma Dasa, son of Sangha Manikadeva, 
son of the wife of Sangha ... baraia, son of Sangha B unarm a, son of Sangha 
D,evaraja.” [A. D. 1447.] 
The most recent of the inscriptions is dated as late as Samvat 1912, or 
A. D. 1855. 
The ravine on the west of the valley is bounded on either side by a range 
of rocky hills, terminating in a narrow pathway covered with almost impene- 
trable brushwood and j ungle. The plain between the mountains is almost level, 
and is covered with bushes, and broken here and there by heaps of stone. A 
huge embankment stretches right across it, from the foot of Sonargir (exactly 
below the Jaina tample which crowns its summit) to that of Baibliar. The 
plain to the east of this is the RanbhAm. About a quarter of a mile beyond 
this a second hand, hardly inferior in size and importance, traverses the valley 
almost at right angles. 
The traveller Fah-Hiyan quitted the Magadha capital through the 
ravine and the rugged valley of Jeti-ban which lies beyond it. -I have tra- 
versed the whole of the country as far as the hot springs of Tapoban, but a 
detailed description of it, does not find a place here, as it lies beyond the 
limits of “ Bihar in Patna.” 
V.— Prom Tiladaka [or Tilasakya] Monastery to Kalya'npu'r. 
Hwcn Thsang started from the east of Patna [Patali] and proceeded 
to a monastery situated at a place called Tilayakya, but strange to say one 
account makes the distance thirty-live miles or seven yojanas, and the other 
twenty miles or one hundred lis. Although I am unable to explain this dis- 
crepancy, except by the generally inaccurate distances given by the writer, 
I have no hesitation in identifying this place with the modern village of Til- 
larah or Tillardah situated, as nearly as possible twenty-four miles to the 
south-west of the most easterly part of Patna, (which town is nearly eight miles 
long) on a narrow strip of land between the Kattfir and the Sona streams, two 
branches of the Phalgu River. The modern village consists of a straggling 
line of houses and shops running from east to west, but nearly a third of 
them are unoccupied and fast falling to decay. The town of Tillarah, 
however, still bears the signs of a period of prosperity which has now long 
since passed away. The ruins of a fine bridge of five arches still spans the 
now nearly dried up course of the Sona-nadi ; a splendid masjid composed 
