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17. Local tradition ascribes the construction of the temple to the 
Pandus from whom the hill takes its name. In the small lake, visible 
from the summit, and about 6 miles north-west the Pandus are supposed in 
days gone by to have washed their garments, whilst the hill top, with its, 
for the Himalayas, broad expanse of grassy level, was the drying ground 
for the Pandu linen. Mr. Craw, who with his gun and dogs has visited 
most of these little known recesses of the Himalayas, has kindly promised 
to keep a look out for similar remains during his sporting excursions. 
18. Subsequently, on the march between Dunagiri and Sameshwar, 
I came across some more monoliths, on the right hand side of the road, 
close to the Lodh Tea Factory. They are apparently the remains of what 
once was a considerable structure. In shape the monoliths exactly re¬ 
semble the Chandeshwar Mahadeo. But on the one is carved a circle 
intended perhaps for the moon ; on the other, what looks like a sun. If I 
mistake not, there is supposed to be some connection between sun and 
moon worship and the worship of the Mahadeo and the yoni , the sun taking 
the place of the Mahadeo, the moon of the yoni. 
19. Some three miles further on, on the right hand side of the road 
just above a little village distinguishable by its Deodar trees, and a small 
temple belonging to the Bidranath Mahant, I halted for a short time to 
examine a mass of boulders lying round a mound, which from a distance 
bore some resemblance to the tumuli common in Central and Southern 
India. On its summit was a shrine about two feet high of peculiar con¬ 
struction, consisting of a sort of box, like a Kistvaen, formed of four slabs 
of stone imbedded in the earth, a fifth and movable slab forming the top, 
or cover. Within, sheltered from the weather by these slabs, was a small 
stone Mahadeo, or ling, daubed with red paint, and a small iron lamp. 
Outside the Kistvaen was a second and smaller stone Mahadeo, and on it, 
apparently taking the place of the red paint, a cup mark. 
20. A further examination of the site indicated the existence round 
the mound of an outer and inner circle of stones, the larger of about 30 
feet in diameter. The mound was in the midst of irrigated, and well cared for 
rice fields, and the boulders, lying about in disorder, had apparently 
been disturbed to make way for the plough in the absence of a Kamaon 
“ Sir J. Lubbock’s Act” for the preservation of ancient remains. But the 
circular shape of the mound and of the arrangement of the boulders sur¬ 
rounding it, some of which were too heavy to be displaced, was still trace¬ 
able. One of the boulders, a huge mass measuring 7 feet in height by 
13 feet in length by 9 feet in breadth, which could successfully defy most 
attempts at displacement, had five rows of cup marks still traceable on 
it, whilst other rows much weather-worn could with some difficulty be made 
out. About half a mile further on, I again found cup-marks on a somewhat 
smaller group of boulders, among the rice fields. 
