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The building at Bahua is smaller, plainer, and in a much more 
ruinous condition. It must originally have been dedicated to Mahadeva ; 
but at present it contains a recumbent statue of Narayan with Lakshmi 
at his feet and Brahma seated on a lotus growing out of his navel. 
The figure is set upright against the wall, and locally is known only by 
the name of Kakora Baba, to whom offerings are specially made by 
young wives, natives of the village, after the birth of their first child. 
Some 200 years ago, probably at the time when the new patron was 
installed, the temple which must then have been quite a ruin, was very 
ignorantly repaired, pieces of the sculptured doorway (which—as at 
Tinduli—had been thrown down) being built up into the roof and other 
places to which they did not belong. These I have taken out and joined 
together on the ground, and it now only remains to set them up in their 
proper position. This can be done at slight expense, with the help of 
two iron girders to support the broken architraves, and by building up 
a flight of masonry steps underneath. The plinth also is being repaired, 
and the ground raised, levelled and inclosed, to prevent injury from 
cattle. In both temples the cella under the brick sikhara is entirely of 
stone, with a flat cieling, above which the hollow brick shaft closely 
resembles in appearance the interior of an old-fashioned English 
chimney. 
Other interesting remains of the Hindu period exist at Asothar and 
Hathganw. The former town is the seat of a Raja, who in the absence 
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of any rivals, ranks as a person of some local distinction, though his 
estate consists of six villages only. All the other resident gentry in the 
district are Muhammadans, whose ancestors were mostly officials of the 
Lucknow Court, and who are now reduced to poverty. He belongs to 
the Kliichar clan, which is recognised as a branch of the Cliauhans, and 
had its original home at Khicliidara, or Ragliu-garh, in Central India. 
It was from there that one Deogaj Sinh eame about the middle of the 
sixteenth century A. D. and had the good fortune to marry a daughter 
of the Gautam Raja of Aijhi, now a small village, a few miles from 
Asothar. The descendants of this marriage, however, achieved no dis¬ 
tinction of any kind, till 150 years later, when a member of the family, by 
name Aram Sinh, discovered, as is said, a hidden treasure. Certainly 
by some means or other he contrived to secure for himself a more promi¬ 
nent position than that of any other Hindu in the neighbourhood : but 
it lasted only a very brief period. 
The Asothar Fort was built by Araru Sinli and is therefore of 
no antiquity ; the town is many centuries older. Its original site 
is indicated by an extensive brick-strewn mound, two or three fur¬ 
longs to the south of the Fort. On the highest part of it is a 
