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L. A. Waddell —Discovery of Buddhist Remains 
[No. I, 
posed somewhat radiatingly to the centre of the brick mound, it may 
be the remains of a wall bounding a path leading up to the stupa; 
but as I had no leisure to explore the mound properly, I left it undis¬ 
turbed. The villagers report that at the last quarrying operations, 
about four years ago, the overseer carried off a black stone which was 
on the top of this brick-mound, and there is a square arrangement of 
the superficial bricks around the centre of the mound suggestive of the 
existence of a small square shrine here. The position being on the very 
top of the hill, it is quite possible that there may have been here a rela¬ 
tively modern shrine to a Bralimanic god, erected on the ruins of the 
stupa and built with the bricks of the latter. Some of the villagers say 
that the officer of the ‘ fort ’ had his house here, but this is mani¬ 
festly absurd, as there is no room for a dwelling house in such a 
circumscribed spot. This brick mound, therefore, demands careful 
exploration, although it is extremely improbable that any relics will be 
found here, as the depth of bricks now remaining is only about 3 feet 
or so. 
Buddha's lota-print. —4th. “ Again to the south is the impression on a 
11 stone on which Buddha set down his kiun-chi-kia (kundika or water - 
“ vessel). In depth the lines are about an inch and are like a flower with 
“ eight buds (or petals)." This mark, which is locally known as Lorik’s 
1 lota- mark’— lota being the modern term for the ancient kundika , —is 
still an absolutely fixed point, although the mark itself no longer exists, 
the portion of rock on which it was graven having been blasted about five 
years ago. Several of the villagers whom I separately interrogated led 
me always to the very same spot. Fortunately, however, in this case 
we are not dependent on the mere testimony of the villagers. On 
several parts of the hill are sculptured on the rock the figures of stupas 
or chaityas of most elaborate patterns. And I observed that these groups 
of stupa-figures have their apices pointing towards one or other of the 
footprints and other sacred markings. In this case, the group of stupa- 
figures which are situated immediately below, and with their apices 
directed towards the reported site of the lota- mark are supplemented by 
figures of the lota or water-vessel very specially and prominently dis¬ 
played ; see Plate II. 
The lota is here figured in no less than three and probably four 
different phases, viz. : — 
(a) The small single circle to the left of the stupa (No. 1, PI. II.), 
■which is reported to be the exact facsimile reproduction of the actual 
circumference of the body of the original lota- mark—now destroyed as 
above noted ; its diameter measures 7J inches. 
( b ) The elongated pear-shaped figure (No. 2, PI. II), immediately 
