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completely deserted, and I have found several carvings in the floor. In the 
enclosure which faces it, I noticed a magnificent slab of basalt more than six 
feet long, and a foot thick, lying imbedded in the earth. I got it turned 
over, and found in the reverse a most curious (perhaps unique) series of twen- 
ty figures under pillared canopies ; — one, the god Ganesa ; two to eleven, 
Incarnations of Vishnu [Hindu] ; twelve to twenty, the nine planets [Bud- 
dhistic]. Again to the north of the fort, in a plain called Logan i, there are 
traces of a large vilidra and many granite columns. In the same direction I 
have found several beautiful basalt pillars which have been photographed. 
In the dargah of Makkdum Shah Ahmad Charmposh, situated a little to the 
east of Logani, I fouud a splendid monolith covered with the most delicate 
carving, and the doorway of the shrine itself is a grand specimen of 
Buddhistic art, and, according to tradition, once served as the great 
entrance to the vihara in the old fort. A figure of Buddha once 
occupied the centre, and the plinth is composed of three rows of the 
most exquisitely sculptured foliage, &c., and two other mouldings which once, 
doubtless, contained figures, are now covered with several yards of finely 
carved Persian verse. The doorway is eleven feet high and seven 
broad. 
We may now leave Bihar and travel northwards along the course of the 
Panchana. At Soh Serai, some two miles north of Bihar, are the remains of 
a Buddhist temple. The ground is strewn with greystone columns of consider- 
able size, most of them broken in several pieces. The base and capitals are 
square, and the shaft varies in shape — being first octagonal, then sixteen-sided, 
and lastly circular. 
As I have said in the preceding chapter, I identify these remains with 
the Kapotilca Sungharama of Hwen Tlisang, situated two or three lis to the 
north of the isolated rock. The following extract is Julien’s terse translation 
of his description of the locality. 
‘ A deux ou trois li au sud de ce couvent, il y a une montagne isolee qui 
est taillee en terrasse, et dont le sommet liardi et imposant est embelli par 
une riche vegetation, des b assies d’eau pure, et des flours parfumees. Comme 
il est un lieu remarquable par la beaute do ses sites, on y a bati un grand 
nombre de temples sacres, ou l’on voit souvent des miracles et des prodiges 
aussi rares qu’ extraordinaires. 
‘ Dans un vihara qui oecupe le centre du plateau, s’eleve une statue, en bois 
de sandal, de Ttanar-tsen-ts' ai-pon-sa (d' Avaldbrilee.vara bodhisaltva ) * * * * 
On voit plusieurs dizaines d’hommes qui se privent de manger et de hone pen- 
dant sept oumeme quatorze jours, pour lui adresser des veeux. Ceux qui sont 
animes d’une foi ardente voient immediatement l’image entire du Bodhisatt- 
va. Alors du milieu de la statue il sort environne d’un eclat imposant, lour 
parle avee bienveillance et leur aecorde l’objet de leurs veeux. 11 y a aussi 
