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the walls of shops or houses on either side, which I have exposed, and 
which are marked by the lines a, a, a, and 6, b, b, on either side 
of the street. The transverse lines m, m, and n, n, are the trenches 
which I dug when searching for these walls. In these shops or houses 
I found some old earthen pots and one copper Indo-Bactrian coin of 
no value. The settlement boundary pillar S stands to the north of 
the middle of a large open space, which was probably a market place. 
This would be easily determined by following out the lines of the 
walls of shops or residences which I have begun to expose, pushing 
them north and then following the turnings east and west. 
The two largest mounds which attracted the notice of the explorer, 
as rising above the surrounding jungle, were those known in the neigh¬ 
bourhood as the Pakka Kuti and the Kachcha Kuti. I shall describe 
them first. 
The Pakka Kuti is the place fixed on by General Cunningham as 
the Angulimalya stupa, but he seems to have had no ground for making 
this identification beyond the size and prominence of the mound. I 
have opened the mound, cleared the four sides and laid bare the main 
walls. I have also removed the earth from the main chamber (marked C 
in the drawing of the Pakka Kuti) and I cannot but conclude that this is 
not the Angulimalya stupa. In the first place there is no architectural 
arrangement, such as is clearly perceptible in the undoubted stupa else* 
where found, and in the next place I found in the bottom of the chamber 
in C, a portion of an older and more substantial wall (marked W), the 
fragment of an older building. I am inclined to think that this is the 
site of the Hall of the Law built by Prasenajit, and I think it is satis¬ 
factory in respect of situation with reference to the royal palace, which I 
believe stood round the place where Saiyad Miran’s Dargah now stands 
and extended a long way to the west of it. The tomb of this Moslem who 
was placed in charge of Mahet by the early Mussalman conquerors is 
likely to have been in the quarter occupied by the governor and his 
suite, and it is unlikely that they were located anywhere but in the 
buildings which the ruler whom they displaced had occupied. There 
are clear traces of regularly built and well laid out enclosed buildings 
in this part of the city, and I believe their exploration would reveal the 
accuracy of this location which I give to the palace. Not only does this 
location of the palace fit in with the situation in which the main Bud¬ 
dhist buildings in Mahet are found, but it suits the narrative of Pramati 
where it describes the ladies of the king’s household going from the 
palace to the river side to bathe. Had the palace lain to the west of the 
city, they would have had to cross the whole city to make their ablutions 
and this is not a supposition favourable to the dignity of those ladies. 
