JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 
Part i — HISTORY, LITERATURE, &e. 
EXTRA-NUMBER. 
1892 . 
Set Mahet. —By W. Hoey. 
Introduction. 
The following notes originally formed a report on the excavations 
and explorations conducted by me at Set Mahet during the cold weather 
of 1881-85, under the orders of the Local (Government, at whose dis¬ 
posal the Maharani of Balrampur had placed Its. 5,000 for the purpose. 
Work did not commence until the 15th December 1881. Operations of 
excavation continued up to about the middle of May 1885. Unfortu¬ 
nately more than one-third of the money at my disposal had to be 
expended npon cutting the dense jungle which covered the site. 
Once the jungle had been cut I fixed on certain prominent features 
and laid out lines which the labourers, who were distributed into 
gangs, were required to follow under the supervision of gangmen. The 
result was that I have been able in the case of Mahet to lay out some 
of the general outlines of the city, the gates and the main street of the 
eastern part, and I think I have determined what the chief mounds in 
that quarter represent. I have also found some buildings, both Jain 
and Hindu, in the western quarter, and have opened up the mound of 
Somnath. Outside the city, I have shown what Baghela Bari and 
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