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towers and having no connection with the Buddhist remains, being evidently 
the ruins of a Muhammadan fort. Immediately to the south of this are two 
small Buddhist topes, some fifty feet in circumference and not more than 
six or eight feet high. I found in these several fine Buddhist and Hindu 
idols, notably a crowned figure of Vishnu, seated on his sacred bird ; and 
several iigures which I recovered from the village itself, evidently came from 
the same place. One thousand eight hundred and twenty-five feet south- 
west of these topes is a very beautiful square tank, known as the “ Suraj 
Pokhar, which measures as near as possible four hundred feet on each side. 
This pond was once flanked with a row of small pagodas on the north side 
covered with massive brick cupolas, and their ruins still exist in tolerable 
entirety. T clearly marked out six of these temples. On each side of the 
pond were three brick ghats, and the ruins of these may still be traced. 
The banks of the tank served also as the repository for chaityas. 
Several of these were taken out of the tank by me, and I saw many others 
beneath the clear water. About twenty feet to the oast of the tank is a 
mound, evidently formed of the remains of some large brick building, 
surmounted by a luxuriant bar tree. Duo south of this, and at a distance 
of one thousand two hundred feet, is another enormous mound six hundred 
feet in circumference, and nearly fifty feet in height. Between this and 
the next tumulus, which is seven hundred and fifty feet distant in the same 
direction, is a brick enclosure containing seven Buddhist figures, now regular- 
ly worshipped as Hindu deities. The largest, yclept the Telia Bhanddr, 
(see note m the concluding chapter), is of colossal proportions, and resembles 
very much, though it is of inferior workmanship, the groat Sri Bullum Buddha 
of the Titrawan monastery. The following are the measurements of the 
Telia Bhandar — 
Crown of head to chin, 
Crown of head to seat of throne, . 
Length of head, 
Length of foot, 
Circumference of head at forehead, 
Shoulder to elbow, 
Elbow to hand, 
Hip to knee 
Knee to ankle, 
Bound the wrist, 
Bound the breast, 
Bound the waist, 
Bound the thigh, 
Bound the neck, 
Feet Inches. 
2 6 
5 G 
1 4 
1 3 
4 4 
2 7 
1 8 
3 2 
2 9 
5 0 
5 7 
1 9 
2 8 
3 1 
