204 Bajendralala Mitra —On the Temples of Deoghar. 
are mostly wild country at the eastern end of the Vindhyan chain; 
therefore Uttaniya is the same with Deoghar. 2. There are several routes 
from Patna in the north to Tamlulc in the south ; one of them passes from 
Bankurah to Bhagalpur to the north-east; therefore Deoghar lay in the 
way from Patna to Tamluk. 3. Uttaniya was a famous monastery from 
which sixty thousand priests issued forth in a body ; Deoghar is a small 
town surrounded by uninhabitable jungle and wild hills ; therefore Deoghar 
is Uttaniya. 4. Uttaniya is very like Utmuria in sound ; Utmuria is near 
Deoghar; therefore Deoghar is the same with Uttaniya. Taking the 
speculations in these forms one cannot resist the temptation of recalling 
Fluellen, and saying—there is a river near Monmouth and there is a river 
near Macedon, and salmons grow in both ; therefore king Hal is the same 
with Alexander the Great. 
I feel that my remarks in regard to the origin and date of Yaidya- 
nathaare more destructive than constructive, and that I fail to supply fixed 
dates and positive statements ; but in the absence of satisfactory data, it is 
better to rest contented with such negative results than to mislead the pub¬ 
lic by mere conjectures, which are very apt to be taken for facts, and 
to result in falsifying history. 
