1892.] 
W. Hoey —Set Mahet. 
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Part II. 
General Map. 
I now propose to exclude Set and Mahet from observation for the 
present, and to travel over the rest of the ground which occupied my 
attention in the cold weather, December 1884 to March 1885. I shall 
assume that the reader has read all part Ho. I of this note carefully 
and has taken in the main points of the notes left us by Fah Hian 
Hwen Thsang. I shall also assume that the reader has consulted 
General Cunningham’s notes on Set Mahet contained in Yols. I and XI 
of the reports of the Archaeological Survey Department. I shall have 
occasion to refer to Rockhill’s Life of Buddha, which is the most recent 
work on the subject of Buddha’s career It contains many important 
notices of Sravasti and when I shall have need to make use of the book 
I shall quote it, noting that I do so, as I cannot expect the book to be in 
every one’s hand. 
In the ramparts and walls which surround Mahet I have found 
four well defined gates, W. X. Y. Z. That at W is the west 
of the gate fortified city, and is known locally as the Imliya Darwaza 
because of the tamarind tree which covers the mound on the right 
as we enter the gate. The walls rise abruptly as they approach the 
gate on each side, and form mounds on the summits of which are 
still seen the outline walls of brick watch towers. The gate was guard- 
ed by an external work, an apron-wall probably, inside which appear 
to have been quarters for soldiers. The central space was occupied by a 
building, which may have been a guard-room, or a monk’s residence, or 
an octroi post; in fact it may have served all these purposes at various 
periods. Inside it I found more than 500 clay seals, almost all unbaked 
clay, bearing inscriptions. I sent some of them to the Secretary of the 
Provincial Museum, Lucknow, for inspection by a German scholar, who 
was at Lucknow in February 1885, but I have heard nothing of them 
yet. In the same place I found large round stones seemingly of uniform 
weight, probably ‘ paseris ’ of ancient date. I also found a fragment of 
a curious vessel of very hard pottery and covered with a green metallic 
glaze, which has gone to the Lucknow Museum. It is, to sketch from 
memory, something of the shape and size rejnesented in drawing A at 
the end of this note. This I believe to have been part of a vessel used 
for the transport of some precious stuff, possibly mercury. The small¬ 
ness of the orifice is remarkable and points to some such use. This 
external building, whatever it may have been, will be seen outlined (as 
far as it was fully explored) in the sheet marked ‘Mahet West.’ 
The next gate X is in the south wall, and, on entering it, there was 
