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him that in a few years he would be converted to Islam, and become 
a great Raja. He continued, however, to wage a hopeless contest, 
and was at last betrayed by his Diwan into the hands of his enemies, 
who carried him a prisoner to Delhi. "While every moment ex¬ 
pecting to meet an ignominious death, the daughter of the emperor 
happened to cast her eyes upon him, and expressed to her father 
a desire to be married to him. The emperor consented, the Raja 
preferred his life to his religion, the marriage was celebrated 
with great pomp, and the Raja was restored to his guddee. 
The emperor granted his daughter as dowry the perganah Haveli 
(meaning house) for her residence, the parganah Kajla for 1 kajul* 
(a preparation worn by women on their eyes), the parganah Lahata 
for 1 lahti’ (lac bangles), and the parganah Singol for ‘ sindiir’ 
(worn on the forehead). 
The Raja who was thus restored to the raj with the emperor’s 
daughter as his spouse, was named Toral Mai,* son of Sangram 
Shah, the founder of Kharakpur. 
Sunday , the 19 th December , 1869.—On the way, I saw in an 
uninhabited plain, near Jalalabad, a large image cut in stone, which 
is held in great veneration by the Hindus. It has no resem¬ 
blance with any of the Hindu deities, and is called Bun-Bliokranath, 
—a name which none of them bears. The group of figures cut in 
stone seemed evidently to be Buddhistic ; but the idolatrous and 
religious Hindu, who seeks his god among stocks and stones, has 
converted the principal image into an object of worship, simply 
because he could not explain how and whence it came there. 
Nearly all the images have their noses cut off, a piece of service 
for which they are no doubt indebted to the fanatical and itlol-hating 
Muhammadans. As the Muhammadans do not appear to have 
disfigured images except such as were held in great veneration 
by their Hindu or Buddhist brothers, the image in question must 
at one time have formed part of a great temple. 
The officiating priest who was as ignorant as any man regard¬ 
ing the history and origin of the image, showed us a figure in the 
group half hidden under the earth, which he said had appeared of 
late, but did not exist before,—a statement which his neighbours 
# Toral Mai, after his conversion, appears to have been called Rozafzuu, 
