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panying photograph, is in three stages, the upper and lower Hindu, and 
the one between them purely Muhammadan in character. The interior is 
a fine vaulted hall (63 ft. x 20 ft.) with a double tier of openings north 
and south ; those in the lower story having brackets and architraves and 
those above being Muhammadan arches, as in the middle story of the front. 
These latter open into a narrow gallery with small clerestory windows 
looking on to the street. Below, the three centre bays of the colonnade 
are open doorways, and the two at either end are occupied by the staircase 
that leads to the upper gallery. Some of the carved panels of the stone 
ceiling have fallen; but the outer roof, a steep gable, also of stone, is as 
yet perfect. Some trees however have taken root between the slabs and 
unless carefully removed must eventually destroy it. The actual shrine, or 
cella, as also at the temple of Gobind Deva, was demolished by Aurangzeb 
and only the plinth remains, upon which a room has been built, which is 
used as a kitchen. As no mosque was ever erected at Brindaban, it is not a 
little strange that Mr. Fergusson in his History of Indian architecture, 
when speaking of this very locality, should venture to say “ It does not 
appear proven that the Moslems did wantonly throw down the temples 
of the Hindus, except when they wanted the materials for the erection of 
mosques or other buildings.” A thorough repair of roof, eaves and east 
front would cost Its. 4,500, and as a typical example of architecture, the 
building is worth the outlay. A modern temple has been erected on the 
south side, and the nave of the old fabric has long been entirely disused. In 
fact this is the last temple in the neighbourhood in which a nave was built 
at all. In the modern style it is so completely obsolete that its distinctive 
name even is forgotten. On the opposite side of the street is a monument 
to the founder, which however the present generation of Gosains are too un¬ 
grateful to keep in repair. They are the descendants of Braj Chand’s 
four sons, Sundar-Bar, Badha Ballabh Das, Braj-Bhukhan and Nagar Bar Ji; 
and the heads of the four families so derived are now Daya Lai, Manohar 
Ballabh, Sundar Lai and the infant son of Kanhaiya Lai. 
Hari Vans was himself the author of two poems ; the one, the Ghaurdsi 
Pa da, or 4 84 Stanzas,’ in Hindi, the other the Pddhd S'udhd Nidhi , or 
c Treasury of lladha’s Delights,’ in 170 Sanskrit couplets. The latter, 
though not much read, is held in great esteem and, regarded solely as a piece 
of highly impassioned erotic verse, it is a spirited and poetic composition. 
There is a good Hindi commentary upon it by one Bansidhar, dated sam- 
bat 1820. It is written in a very florid style and its interminable compounds, 
to be rendered into intelligible English, would require a greater expenditure 
of time and thought than I can now bestow upon them. But as MSS. are 
scarce and Sanskritists may like to see a specimen of the text, I subjoin the 
first 25 and the last couplet in the original. 
