1892.] 
W. Hoey —Set Mahet. 
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ed tlie masonry platform of the original mouth of the well, and that it 
had originally been only at the top of the circular part of the masonry. 
Clearly the octagonal part was an addition. Going on with my trenches 
I found IT, V, to be circular bases in offset walls of buildings which had 
stood on the original level. W was a pillar similar to T, but of smaller 
dimensions. Here then I had touched the original level of the Jetavana, 
and here, in all probability, I had come across two of the memorial 
pillars, and possibly two of the smaller stupas referred to by the Chinese 
pilgrims. If this be so, the lowest level seen by General Cunningham 
was about 15 feet above the original ground of the Jetavana. This 
shows what has to be done before we shall be entitled to speculate on the 
identification of Gandha Kuti or Kosambha Kuti. 
I have only now to refer to the trenches ab, cd, de. They have 
been cut to a depth in some parts of 20 feet and have revealed very old 
walls, but the result was little more than to give me an idea of the 
direction of the buildings. The long trench cd, showed at 31 the general 
outline of a wall which seemed to be the side of a long passage or 
hall, possibly the vestibule of a large building. Ho. 30 is a series of 
cells, but they rest on older cells, and in one place I found the remains of 
a staircase, as it seemed to me, leading to a lower chamber. In the 
earth which had closed up this staircase, I found a terra-cotta figure of 
a naked infant and two seals. I also found in one of the lower cells a 
large store of rice, which had been preserved from decomposition by 
close compression in the ruins. Ho. 29 is a masonry platform, seemingly 
a seat for monks at the back of the large building, of which 30 and 31 
are parts. It is, however, part of a later building raised on the ruins of 
the older. 
I have little left to say of the tangible memories of Set except to 
call attention to the very obvious reminiscence contained in the name 
of Chakkar Bhandar, the adjoining hamlet. It is clearly named from 
the chamber and the pillar surmounted by the wheel (chakra), which 
flanked one side of the east entrance of the Jetavana. The Chakkar is 
the wheel, and the Bhandar is the Sanscrit bhdndagara, or storeroom, the 
chamber in which the commonwealth of the fraternity was stored. 
Chakkar Bhandar stands on ruins, lines of brick wall being clearly 
traceable in parts, and the hamlet should be explored with care and at 
the same time with due regard for the villagers’ prejudices and home 
feelings. It is true that if Chakkar Bhandar be the actual site of the 
wheel-crowned pillar and adjoining storehouse, it will carry us further 
east for the main door than General Cunningham fancies it lay, but we 
must remember that the pillar was probably raised by Asoka, and that 
even in his lifetime the Jetavana must have grown far beyond the limit 
