1899.] SOUTHERN DISTRICTS OF KRAMAllAJYA. 20S 
Kalhana mentions Huskapura far more frequently tlian Varaha- 
mula. The conclusion to be drawn herefrom as to the relative impor¬ 
tance of the two places in Hindu times, Is confirmed by the frequent 
references which the Chronicle makes to religious buildings erected in 
Huskapura. Of King Lalitaditya-Muktaplda it is recorded that he 
built there the great temple of Visnu Muhtasvamin and a large Viliara 
with a Stupa. 1 * Ksemagupta who sought the sacred soil of Varahaksetra 
in his fatal illness, had founded two Mathas at Huskapura. 8 
At present foundations of ancient buildings can be traced at 
numerous points of the plain which stretches from the left river-bank 
towards the low hills behind TJ§kiir. These remains as well as two 
colossal Lihgas still in situ have already been noted by Bishop Cowie. 3 
About 400 yards to the west of the village are the much-damaged 
remains of a Stupa, which had been found still intact by Bishop Cowie and 
photographed in that condition by Major Cole (1870). Subsequently it 
was dug into and partly levelled down “by some Sahib’s order,” as the 
villagers told me. Of this excavation I have not been able to trace a 
report. But General Cunningham refers to an ancient coin of the 
Taxila type which was found in this Stupa and had come into his 
possession. 4 5 
It is possible that this Stupa was identical with the one which 
King Lalitaditya erected at Huskapura. Of the Vihara which Kalhana 
mentions in connection with the king’s Stupa, I have shown elsewhere 
that it was in all probability the same convent which Ou-k'ong refers 
to under the name of Moung-ti Vihara. 6 The Moung-ti of the Chinese 
transcription seems to represent a prakritized form of the shortened 
name MuJcta or Muktfi. The latter forms which are abbreviations 
( bhimavat ) for Muktapida , occur also in the designations of other re¬ 
ligious buildings erected by that king (Muktakesava, Muktasvamin). 
As we do not meet with the name of Huskapura in any of the 
later Chronicles it may be assumed that its importance did not survive 
the time of Hindu rule. 
I See Rajat. iv. 188. 
8 Rajat. vi. 186. 
S See J. A. S. B., 1866, p. 123. 
4 See Coins of Anc. India, p. 62. 
5 Compare Notes on Ou-k'ong, pp. 6 sqq. ; Rajat. iv. 188 note. 
