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The body is covered with a cloak. The figure is highly venerated and 
has its pfijSris and rent-free assignment of land. It is worshipped under the 
names of Sri Bullum and Bhairau. On the east side of the tower behind it 
there are three niches ; the first containing a figure of Yishnu, the second 
a miniature reproduction of Sri Bullum (except that three elephants take the 
place of the lion-rampant in the central compartment of the throne), and the 
third, a standing figure of Buddha with an elephant on one side and a Bodhi- 
sattva on the other. Four hundred feet to the west of the pipal tree, the bank 
of the tank runs to the north for a distance of some five hundred feet and then 
again turns to the west. In the angle of this piece of land I found the traces of a 
stiipa or tope, and a similar ruin is to be seen on the opposite side — exactly two 
hundred feet from the northern bank. . The popular traditions of Titrawan are 
very poor. Any knowledge or recollection of Buddhism has entirely passed away, 
and the construction of the now ruined vihara is attributed to a demon king— 
Ban Asar Raja, who is also said to have consecrated the image of Sri Bullum. 
Titrawan must have heen a monastery of no ordinary importance, and its 
position is even preferable to that of Bargaon. The countiy around it is well- 
watered and consequently fertile, and groves of trees surround it on all sides. 
From the towers of the monastery, the hills of Giryak, Bihar, and Parabati are 
distinctly visible, and the banks of the Sri Bullum tank are still covered at all 
times of the year with luxuriant verdure. This lake at sunset would even now 
charm every lover of the picturesque, and the effect must have been still more 
striking when thousands of recluses from the stately monastery which rose 
on its bank, left, their meditations at evening time to adore and incense the 
colossal Buddha which they had erected in its northern shore and dedicated 
“ to the greatest of all purposes.” I counted in one day at Titrawan two 
hundred figures of Buddha of all sizes and design ; most of them bore the 
Buddhist creed in the characters of the 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th centuries A. D., 
and they were nearly all mutilated. I rarely found a single figure which I 
can confidently assert to bo purely Hindu. Several of the Titr&wau idols were 
beautifully polished, and not a few of them bore inscriptions of interest. 
Besides the ruins at the side of the tank there are the remains of a large 
stiipa in the centre of the modern village, two hundred and eightyfeet from the 
south-east corner of the vihara. The only Hindu figures I saw there were 
these of Siva and Durga, commonly called Gauri Sankar. 
I now proceed to describe the Buddhist figures recovered by me from 
the Titrdwan monastery, and now in my collection. No. [GCCXL.] A small 
figure one foot high, found in the mud at the banks of the Digi Pokhar. It 
represents Buddha in the state of nirvana, reposing on a couch — one arm 
being under the head and the other resting on his side. The couch is sup- 
ported by fantastically carved pillars. There are three attendants below ; 
one has his head buried in his arms ; the back of the second is turned to- 
