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• 1901.] N. Dey —Kaluhci Hill in the District of Hazaribagh. 
south from the southern border of the pond ; and at the southern side 
and on the southern portion of the enclosure there are other detached 
hills of which I shall speak hereafter. 
Though the enclosure above described forms a natural stronghold, 
yet I did not find the remains of any fortress within it, excepting the 
slight trace of a battlement on the south-eastern wall. On the north¬ 
western side of the hill situated on the western side of the ravine, and 
not far from the western doorway above described overlooking the 
Lilajan river, is the temple of the goddess Kule^vari which means the 
Lady of the Kula mountain. It is a small homely square building 
facing east with a dome surmounting it: it consists only of two small 
rooms, and in the inner room the image of the goddess is placed in a 
niche in the central part of the western wall. The image of Kule^ari 
is the image of the fourhanded Durga in her Mahisa-viardini form 
and it is one cubit in height. Two fairs are held here every year in the 
months of Caitra and Alvina, when, I understand, people from Gaya, 
Benares, Mirzapur and Chapra come to visit the shrine. 
Just outside the temple at its northern side below a Pipal tree 
(Ficus religiosa), I found some dozen figures of Buddha in the medita¬ 
tive posture, but they are all in a mutilated condition, though they 
can be distinctly recognised as figures of Buddha. A small piece 
of stone among them contains a sculpture of the birth of Buddha in 
the lower compartment and his death in the upper, but the figures have 
become so much mutilated and obliterated that they can hardly be 
recognised. There were also two fragments of a frieze with small 
images of Buddha carved upon them. The Pandas told me that 
formerly many such figures in the meditative attitude abounded the 
place, but they have been taken away gradually by the persons who 
visit the shrine. 
At a short distance to the south of the temple of Kulepvaii and 
on the same hill, is a small low cell facing west formed by two boulders 
of rock with a stone slab on the top of them. One must creep inside 
the cell to get a view of the image there. It contains an image which 
is worshipped as the image of Bhairoji. But on close inspection it was 
found to be the Jaina image of Parpvanatha in the posture of meditation 
with the usual row of snake-heads on the top of the head. I could 
not make out whether the image was of white or black stone, as a 
thick coating of black paint has been laid upon it to make it appear 
glossy and shiny. Just in front of this cell and at a distance of only 
1| cubits, is the back of another low small cell similarly formed; it 
contains a stone image of Buddha in the same contemplative attitude : 
the face has been mutilated, and the broken part has been smeared 
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