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and south, a small doorway under a hood supported on eight closely-set 
brackets carved into the form of elephants. The nave has been completely 
destroyed. Three other temples, dedicated respectively to Radha Ballabh, 
Chir Bihari, and Radha Damodar, put forward claims to considerable anti- 
quity ; hut, as buildings, they possess no special architectural merit. The 
same may be said of the Bengali temple of Sring&r Bat, near the Madan 
Mohan, which, however, enjoys an annual income of its. 13,500, divided 
among three shareholders, who each take the religious services for four 
months at a time. The village of Jahangirpur, on the opposite bank of the 
river, including the sacred grove of Bel-ban, forms part of the endowment. 
Of the modern temples five claim special notice. The first in time of 
erection is the temple of Krishna Chandrama, built about the year 1810, 
at a cost of 25 lakhs, by the wealthy Bengali Kayath, Krishan Chandra 
Sinha, better known as the Labi 156 bu. It stands in a large court yard, 
which is laid out, not very tastefully, as a garden, and enclosed by a lofty 
wall of solid masonry, with an arched gateway at either end. The building 
is of quadrangular form, 160 feet in length, with a front central compart- 
ment of three arches and a lateral colonnade of five bays reaching back on 
either side towards the cella. The workmanship throughout is of excellent 
character, and the stone has been carefully selected. The two towers, or 
sikharas, are singularly plain ; but have been wisely so designed, that their 
smooth polished surface may remain unsullied by rain and dust. 
The founder’s ancestor, Babu Murli Mohan Sinha, son of one liar Krish- 
na Sinha, was a wealthy merchant and landed proprietor at Kdndi in Murshid- 
abad. His heir, Bihari Lai Sinha, had three sons, Radhd Gobind, Gangs 
Gobind, and Radha Charan : of these the last-named, on inheriting his share of 
the paternal estate, broke off connection with the rest of the family and has 
dropped out of sight. Radha Gobind took service under Allah Virdi Khan and 
Siraj-ud-daulah, Nawabs of Murshiddbad, and was by them promoted to posts 
of high honour. A rest-house for travellers and a temple of Radha -ballabh 
which he founded, are still in existence. He died without issue, leaving his 
property to his brother, Ganga Gobind, who took a prominent part in the 
revision of the Bengal settlement under Lord Wm. Bentinck in 1828. He 
built a number of dharmsalas for the reception of pilgrims and lour temples 
at Ramchandrapur in Nadiyd. These latter have all been washed away by 
the river, but the images of the gods were transferred to Kdudi. He also 
maintained several Sanskrit schools in Nadiya ; and distinguished himself 
by the extraordinary pomp with which he celebrated his father’s obsequies, 
spending moreover evei’y year on the anniversary of his death a lakh of 
rupees in religious observances. Ganga Gobind’s son, Pran Kishan Sinha, still 
further augmented his magnificent patrimony before it passed in succession 
to his son, Krishan Chandra Sinha, better known under the soubriquetof ‘ the 
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