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1883 ] Rajendralala Mitra —On the Temples of Deoghar. 
used at Bhuvanesvara for the purpose of setting up a swing during the 
swing festivals. At Puri there is a similar structure to the north of the 
great temple, and used for the same purpose. Innumerable other instan¬ 
ces may be easily cited, but they are, I think, not wanted. In my own 
house there is a wooden structure for hanging the swing for my family 
divinity, and almost every old family in Calcutta can produce samples of 
it. 
Mr. Beglar had not, evidently, read Dr. Hunter’s work when he wrote 
his report on Vaidyanatha, and his idea is that the gallows represents a 
gateway. He writes : “ There is, however, one object that must be except¬ 
ed : this is a great gateway consisting of two pillars spanned by an archi¬ 
trave ; this is clearly the remains of some great ancient temple, which has 
entirely disappeared, leaving its outer gateway alone standing. I infer it 
to have been an outer gateway from its resemblance in all essentials to the 
great outer gateway of the temple at Pathari in Central India ; like it, 
it stands entirely isolated, and although the pillars are plain rectangular 
ones, and have not the elaborate sculpture and the graceful statues that 
adorn the example at Pathari, there is nevertheless about it an air of im¬ 
pressiveness that takes it out of the commonplace. I could not obtain 
access to it, but was obliged to content myself with a distant view; it is 
situated on a small raised spot entirely surrounded by private huts; at 
present it is known as the hinclold, or swing, and at a certain festival the 
statue of Krishna is brought and made to swing beneath it.” # The terrace, 
six feet high, on which the pillars are fixed, is sufficient to show that the gate 
theory is not at all tenable. No one in his senses would have thought it pro¬ 
per or convenient to have a terrace six feet high to block his principal gateway. 
It might be said that the terrace is a subsequent addition, but to prove 
this, one must dig into the terrace, and show that the stones are buried 
below the level of the surrounding ground. Mr. Beglar had got the right 
information, but he failed to utilise it. I cannot make out how he found 
any difficulty in coming near the pillars, for they stand right on the side 
of a public highway, and are easily accessible to all comers. 
On the north side of the road, a little to the west of the pillars, there 
is a small square chamber with a pyramidal roof, which has a plain tomb 
in its middle, and this is said to contain the mortal remains of Vaiju. The 
building cannot be two hundred years old, and there is nothing in it to 
show that it is in any way connected with the alleged discoverer and 
breaker of the lingam which bears his name. In fact the name is an old 
one, and applied in the Puranas to the lingam of S'iva in very distant parts 
of India. It is often applied to Dhanvantari, the oldest Hindu surgeon. 
It means the “ lord of medicine,” and S'iva is the great lord of all herbs. The 
* Archeological Survey of India, Reports, Yol, VIII, p. 128. 
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