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but abruptly terminates at a distance of sixty or seventy feet from the en- 
trance. This shows the tradition which makes the fissure in question a 
subterranean passage leading to a tower on the Indra-Saila hill to be perfect- 
ly erroneous. The atmosphere in the cave is most oppressive and, in addi- 
tion to its being the home of a motley tribe of vultures and kites, a 
sulphureous smell proceeds from the rock which has a sickening effect on the 
explorer. Crossing the mountain in a north-easterly direction and passing 
over the wall [popularly called 4 Jarasandha’s baud’], one comes quite suddenly 
on the eastern peak of the Indra-Saila mountain. This is crowned with a 
stone platform, about twenty-five feet high, one hundred and fifty long 
and one hundred broad, which appears to have been the site of a large 
vihara and the usual temple. The wall of the vihara towards the east 
is still tolerably entire, and was originally composed of enormous bricks 
similar to those found at Nalanda and Rajagriha. Besides this wall, 
the remains of the temple towards the western end can clearly be traced, 
and several granite pillars in the vestibule are still erect. The whole of these 
ruins should be carefully excavated at the expense of Government, for the 
vihara in question was one of great importance and antiquity. I shall 
afterwards have occasion to refer to the monastery again, when I come to 
speak of it in relation to Hwen Thsang’s visit to the Indra-Saila hill. From 
the eastern door of the vihara a broad stone staircase or roadway leads to 
the eastern peak, which is crowned by a brick tower, sixty-five feet in cir- 
cumference and about twenty-five feet high. This edifice is generally de- 
scribed as the baithak, or resting-place, of Jarasandlia, and the Asura prince 
is stated in popular tradition to have been accustomed to sit on this throne 
of brick while he bathed his feet in the Panchana torrent a thousand feet below. 
The length of the staircase connecting the two peaks is four hundred feet. 
The eastern peak is called by the country people Mamubhagna, or Phulwaria 
paha r — the western, Hawfdia-Pahar. This brick tower rests on a square 
platform, now a mass of ruins, and there appears to have been a vault or well 
in the centre. I have not the slightest doubt that the so-called tower is in 
reality the remains of a stupa, the outer portions of which have been ruined 
and removed by time. A deep inscision has been made in the base, but I 
believe nothing was found there except a packet of Buddhist seals in wax. 
To the south-west of the stupa are the remains of an artificial tank or 
reservoir, about one hundred feet square. This is popularly supposed to have 
been Jarasandha’s flower-garden. From the ruins which crown the summit 
of the hill, a stone staircase or road leads to the plains beneath. This first 
stretches down the south side of the hill to a distance of three hundred 
feet, when one suddenly comes on a small stone stupa ; it then turns to the 
east, and after traversing a distance of sixteen hundred feet, I arrived at a 
spot where there are the ruins of a stupa on either side of the path. Just 
