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Cunningham* afterwards identified as a spot in the neighbourhood of 
Sahet-Mahet in S. Oudh, and the direct distance hence to Uren is by 
the map about three hundred miles, but by road it would be much 
greater. Both versions note that the place was near the Ganges, and 
that the demon killed and ate human beings, and was converted 
by Buddha. The Sinhalese account states that the abode of the demon 
in the forest was high and conspicuous as this hill is ; and the Burmese 
version further states that “ Buddha spent herein the sixteenth Season,” 
and adds “ on that spot where so glorious and unexpected a conversion 
“had taken place a monastery ivas erected.** 
As the hill of Uren itself offered no room for a monastery this 
would naturally be built on the spur at the base, now occupied by the 
mounds of brick ruins. 
Sketch of its extent and superficial remains. —In the accompanying 
map (Plate I) will be seen the position, extent and outline of the mass 
of brick debris, which seems to be the ruins of the monastery. I should 
mention that in surveying the site I took the measurements by pacing, and 
one step is taken as being equivalent to one yard. Before the railway 
excavations commenced about thirty years ago, the ruins are said to have 
formed high mounds of bricks outlining the position of the walls. But 
the railway operations removed all the superficial bricks and the greater 
portion of the foundation of the walls were also dug up. The old 
villagers report that the bricks thus exhumed from the foundations were 
of enormous size, viz., about 18 inches X 10" or 12" and of a thickness 
like ordinary modern bricks. Notwithstanding the hundreds of cart¬ 
loads of bricks thus dug up and removed, it is said that a considerable 
portion of the foundation still remains intact underneath the present 
mounds of brick debris ; so that excavation may yet reveal the exact plan 
of the building. The surface of these terraced mounds is strewn with 
fragments of statues and other sculptured stones. At the point marked 
No. 14 on the map are fragments of what appears to be a life-sized 
standing statue of Buddha, and these seem to be more or less in situ. 
The numerous Buddhist images throughout the village are reported 
to have been all collected from this site and carried to where they now 
are for greater safety. At the point marked No. 15 on the map were 
exhumed two ornamented pillars. The points, marked No. 13 on the 
map, indicate unusually high mounds of broken bricks and rough-hewn 
granite blocks. There is no evidence that any large village ever existed 
here. 
Multitude of inscribed images and votive chaityas. —The multitude of 
inscribed Buddhist images and votive chaityas of high artistic merit is 
* Arch. S. Rept ., I. 634. 
