1892.] 
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presented to Buddha a mango, the stone of which was planted and 
became a great tree, with Chakkar Bhandar. The word is not Gand- 
amba, but is properly written Gandhamba, and is clearly a compound of 
Gandha -f amra (or amba), the fragrant mango. The name of the vil¬ 
lage is thus a debased form of Gandhamba + vihara : the garden of 
‘ Gandhamba’ or the fragrant mango garden. Its location near two gates 
of the city mark it out as the probable spot to which the story should bo 
attached. Buddha was going towards a gate of the city when the mango 
was presented. I shall deal with the name of Chakkar Bhandar later on. 
There are two other mounds near Kandh Bari one N. W., the other 
N. E. of it. The latter I did not open. That on the N. W. I opened, 
and found the building of which an outline plan will be seen on Plate IV, 
and its location in Plate XIII. Here I found a late Hindu building, a 
shrine of Mahadeo, superimposed on earlier ruins which I had not time to 
fully explore. In the argha in the central building I found a shaft of a 
red sandstone pillar about 18 in. in diameter and some 4 feet in length, 
the upper half only being dressed and polished as a round pillar. It had 
clearly been originally the lower part of a massive pillar. The broken 
top was dressed off to a hemispherical shape. The argha was very 
brittle and of common grey-green sandstone. The walls seem to have 
been built round the pillar. I do not see how it could have been 
brought in after the completion of the building. The lower part of the 
shaft was cut in a polygon of which I do not remember the number of 
sides, and was not dressed or polished. It seems this pillar must have 
been the lower part of a memorial column found here, or near here, the 
broken top of which was subsequently dressed to hemispherical shape 
and used as a lingam. There were small modern lingams in two cham¬ 
bers on the west. I am inclined to look on this as the position of one of 
Asoka’s memorial pillars. Another I have already mentioned, the Banni 
Nath Mahadeo. 
Part III. 
I have now to invite attention to the separate map of Set or Sahet. 
I have opened so many more mounds and buildings than General Cun¬ 
ningham, that I have been compelled to number anew. To prevent any 
confusion and to make clear my observations which will often conflict 
with General Cunningham’s convictions, I shall in the following notes 
give, as far as I can, the numbers which he has allotted to buildings as 
well as the numbers allotted by me. 
The building marked 1 by me is the same as that bearing that num¬ 
ber in General Cunningham’s map.* Cunningham gives the dimensions 
* Archaeological Survey of India, vol. XI, Flate XXIV. 
