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Three hundred feet to the south of the last-mentioned tumulus is a 
third great tope, sixty high and more than one thousand feet in circumfer- 
ence, the largest and most important of the mounds, surrounded by a 
series of smaller topes, and forming the centre of the ruins of Bargaon. 
I found this on the 15th October, 1871, literally a small hill, the surface of 
which was broken only by a depression on the top, and the remains of a 
former excavation on the eastern slope ; the sides covered with a tangled 
mass of thicket and brushwood, and studded here and there by a solitary 
mango or date tree. 
The results of my excavations have been already given in the third 
chapter. 
Three hundred feet to the south of this is a fifth mound, of about six 
hundred feet in circumference, but of greater elevation than any of the rest. 
Seven hundred and ninety feet south of this is a sixth tumulus of incon- 
siderable size and height. Seven hundred and thirty feet south of the sixth 
mound is a large lake, called the “ Indra Pokhar,” which faces the whole of 
the southern side of the ruins of the monasteries. The three central mounds 
aie bounded on the west by three lakes, known respectively by the name 
of DehS, 1 Bullen, and “ Kundui and some distance west of the fifth 
tumulus is a pond, called Suraha, on the east bank of which are unmis- 
takable traces of Buddhist ruins. South of this is another pond called 
“ Dudhdeha,” and a third known as “ Satyauti,” which also is faced on its 
east side by the rums of a temple or tope. 
Seven hundred and twenty feet due east of the great central tumulus 
is another enormous mound, which I shall designate as the seventh mound. 
It is nearly as large as the central mound itself, but of much less elevation. 
In the level plain between these two heaps is a mass of overgrown walls and 
jungle-covered hillocks, broken here and there by a square patch of scanty 
cultivation. 
Some distance south-east of this seventh tope is the village of Kaptes- 
wari, and the remains of an eighth temple or vihfira, nearly reduced to the 
level of the surrounding plain by the toil of an industrious cultivator, who 
yearly ploughs across its surface, and whose grandfather discovered some 
fine idols and pillars, which are now in my collection. The east of the 
ruins is faced by a tank called the “ Pansokar.” The modern village of 
Bargaon lies to the north of the ruins, and is in a line between the Pansokar 
and Suraj Pokhar tanks. 
The wall which surrounded the whole mass of conventual buildings is 
gone, and has left no trace ; nor could the most diligent search light on 
the whereabouts of the great gate. Bargaon has been the brick quarry of 
Bihar lor centuries ; hence it is that the walls, gates, and houses have disap- 
peared, while the massive tumuli formed by the debris of the temples are as 
yet untouched. 
