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upper parts of this, consisting of many long stones, were removed, when a 
friend of more science in antiquities, recommended the planter to abstain 
from further depredations. In its present state the lower part only of the 
building remains and is a cavity of about 13 feet square at the mouth, and 
8 at the bottom. The sides are lined with squared stones, which form a 
deep stair on each side, and the walls are exceedingly thick. My description 
will be more easily understood by consulting the plan (fig. 3). I have no 
doubt that this is a tomb.” 
Since Buchanan’s time it has been still further desecrated, and, now 
little remains beyond the mound of earth and the name. 
Haris Chandra had two daughters Aduna and Paduna. # These he 
gave in marriage to Gopi Chandra with a hundred maid-servants to wait 
upon them.f By his eighteenth year Gopi Chandra had no child. It had 
been foretold to Mayana that at that age he would die unless he became a 
Sannyasi.J So he prepared, much against his will, to go forth wandering 
in the forests with the Hadi Siddha. His two wives Aduna and Paduna 
tried hard to persuade him to stay, and their arguments form, in my opinion, 
by far the best portion of the poem (vv. 243-302). They contain many 
touches of true poetry. 
This flight of fancy, however, almost immediately leads us into the 
most unnatural—the profoundest bathos. The king tempted by his wives, 
in order to put the correctness of his mother’s words to the test, makes 
her pass through the ordeal of boiling oil. Although the king has strength 
of mind to keep his mother in boiling oil for nine days, it is gratifying to 
learn that he really was a tender and affectionate son ; for when he found 
at the expiration of that time that his mother had been boiled to death, he 
began to weep. Mayana of course was really not dead, she had only 
changed herself into a grain of mustard seed, and soon reappeared in her 
proper form. After the usual preparations, the king sets out on his journey 
with the Hadi Siddha. His minor adventures need not be recorded here. 
He passed through many trials as preparations for his future, and finally 
in an evil moment promised to let the Hadi have twelve Jcdoris wherewith 
to buy ganja. When he would have given it, he found that the store from 
which he intended to take it had been spirited away. Thereupon, rather 
* In Buchanan, Hudna and Pudna. 
t Buchanan says that Gopi Chandra had a hundred wives, hut I can find no trace 
of this in any modern legend. The maid-servants may have been concubines, but not 
wives. They are the hundred damsels mentioned in verse 242. They are it is true 
called queens in verse 410,—but that is only part of the gross and puerile exaggeration 
displayed there, Aduna and Paduna being still kept separate. 
X V. 241. The term Sannyasi should be noticed. It is the ordinary term for a 
Saiva mendicant, Vairagi usually representing a Vaishnava one. 
