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at this place there is a sort of plateau, which is crowned by the remains 
of a perfect cluster of topes. The path then continues to traverse the east 
side of the hill (passing two small modern temples containing footprints or 
charanas of Vishnu), and at a distance of eight hundred feet reaches the 
hanks of the Panchana. 
Dr. Buchanan visited Giryak nearly half a century ago, and a glance at 
his remarks will show the devastation which an Indian climate can bring 
about in a comparatively short time.* 
“ I now proceed to describe the ruins on Girebraja or Giriyak hill. The 
original ascent to this is from the north-east, and from the bottom to the 
summit may be traced the remains of a, road about twelve feet wide, which 
has been paved with large masses of stone cut from the hill, and winds in 
various directions to procure an ascent of moderate declivity. When entire 
a palanquin might have perhaps been taken up and down ; but the road 
would have been dangerous for horses and impracticable for carriages. In 
many places it has now been entirely swept away. I followed its windings 
along the north side of the hill, until I reached the ridge opposite to a small 
tank excavated on two sides from the rock and built on the other two with 
the fragments that have been cut. The ridge here is very narrow, extends 
east and west, and rises gently from the tank towards both ends, but most 
towards the west, and a paved causeway five hundred feet long and forty 
wide, extends its whole length. At the west end of this causeway is a very 
steep slope of brick, twenty feet high and one hundred and seven feet wide. 
I ascended this, by what appeared to have been a stair, as I thought that I 
could perceive a resemblance to the remains of two or three of the steps. 
Above this ascent is a large platform surrounded by a ledge, and this has pro- 
bably been an open area, one hundred and eighty-six feet from east to west by 
one hundred and fourteen feet from north to south, and surrounded by parapet 
wall. At its west end, I think, I can trace a temple in the usual form of a 
mandir.or shrine, and natmandir, or porch. The latter has been twenty-six feet 
deep by forty-eight wide. The foundation of the north-cast corner is still 
entire, and consists of bricks about eighteen inches long, nine wine, and two 
thick, and cut smooth by the chisel, so that the masonry has been neat. The 
bricks are laid in clay mortar. Eight of the pillars that supported the roof 
of this porch project from among the ruins. They are of granite which 
must have been brought from a distance. They are nearly of the same rude 
order with those in the temple of Buddha Sen at Kanyadol and nearly of the 
same size having been about ten feet long, but their shafts are in fact hexa- 
gons, the two angles only on one side ot the quadrangle having been trun- 
cated. The more ornamented side has probably been placed towards the 
centre of the building, while the plain side has faced the wall. The mandir 
* Montgomery Martin’s * Gya and Shahabad.’ 
