1892.] 
at Mount Uren in Mungir ( Monghyr ) district, fyc. 
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the Barhut Sculptures. And it is interesting in regard to Hiuen 
Tsiang’s note that the Yaksha was converted to Buddhism, to find that 
these tribes had acquired profound respect for the remains at Uren; for 
they had carried off from the ruins to the pass several inscribed Buddhist 
stones and images, some of which are reverently disposed under trees 
at the foot of the pass and others on the summit of the pass, where they 
are rudely worshipped by daubing with vermillion. And most of these 
fragments show fractures so sharp as to lead to the belief that they had 
been carried off and deposited where they now are very shortly after 
the destruction of the Buddhist establishment at Uren. 
Foot-trace of Buddha. — 2nd. “ Next to the north is a foot-trace of 
tl Buddha, a foot and eight inches long, and perhaps six inches wide and 
half an inch deep." This foot-trace of Buddha is to be found to the 
north of ‘ Lorik ka ghar ’ and about five yards from the summit of the 
hill; see No. 5 on the plan (Plate I). It is of the right foot, and its 
dimensions are 23 inches long by 10 \ inches broad and about J to \ inch 
in depth. It is directed to the N.N.E. 
The footprint is partly natural and partly artificial, the outer border 
of the print, for the greater part of its extent, is outlined by a linear flaw- 
in the granite rock, into which has poured a quartzoze material, part of 
which had been picked out to give greater distinctness to the outline. 
The inner border of the footprint is also a natural line, and the depres¬ 
sion of the heel and sole seem also natural; but the rock, forming the 
ball of the great toe and the marks of the toe-tips, has all been arti¬ 
ficially chipped, the operation having been assisted by the rock in 
this situation slightly tending to scale, or peel off in one or two layers. 
No chiselling seems to have been resorted to, nor was it needed. In the 
depression from the root of the toes to the heel, the rock is highly polish¬ 
ed and contains traces of numerous inscriptions, all, except the one regis¬ 
tered in two lines on the ball of the toes, so indistinct as to give no legi¬ 
ble impression—and even this one, I fear will prove unreadable. 
The stupa above footprint. —3rd, “ Above it (the foot-trace of Buddha) 
is a stupa erected .” Five yards above the foot-trace, and in line with 
the direction in which it points, is a mound of bricks, the most prominent 
feature on the hill top, and suggestive of the remains of a small stupa. 
The bricks are small, flattened and well-baked, and many of them are 
wedge-shaped. The narrowness of the rocky base, viz,, about 12 feet 
by 12 feet, would not admit of a very large stupa being built here. In 
the village below are collected numerous bevelled and sculptured basalt 
blocks which formed the facings of small stupas. At the N. E. base 
of the brick mound is seen outcropping a part of the base of a thickly 
plastered wall, but its direction is nearly straight, and as it is dis- 
