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Government stallions, and in levelling part of it I came upon two curious 
terra cotta figures, (Plate XXII, fig. 1,) both alike, 5i inches high, repre¬ 
senting a woman with a parrot, which she is about to feed with a fruit she 
holds in one hand. She has enormous ornaments in her ears and a variety 
of chains and bracelets about her. Another fragment—a head only—shows 
a chignon of most prodigious dimensions. In the absence of stone, the 
potter’s art seems to have been largely developed for decoration and religious 
purposes, as is further indicated by a clay statue of the four-armed Krishna, 
which I discovered in breaking down an old well in the upper town. The 
exact date of these figures cannot he determined. 
The Manpur inscription gives Yikram-aditya as the name of Hara- 
datta’s son, and he is probably the same person as a Raja Yikram Sen of 
Baran, who figures in an Aligarh pedigree. The capital of that branch 
of the Dor family is said to have been transferred from Jalali to Kol by 
Buddh Sen, who was the son of Bijay Ram (brother of Dasarath Sinh, 
who built the fort at Jalesar) the son of Nahar Sinh, (founder of the Sam- 
blial Fort) the son of Gobind Sinh, who was the son of Mukund Sen, the 
son of Raja Vikram Sen of Baran. Mangal Sen, who succeeded his father, 
the above-mentioned Buddh Sen, at Kol, is said to have given his daughter 
Padmavati in marriage to the heir of Raja Blum of Mahrara and Etawa, 
who soon after his accession was murdered by his younger brothers. The 
widow then returned to Kol, where her father built for her the tower, 
which was wantonly destroyed by the local authorities in 1860. It is, 
however, more commonly believed that the tower was erected by the Muham¬ 
madans in 1271 on the site of the principal Hindu temple, to commemorate 
the final reduction of the town in the reign of Nasir-ud-din Mahmud. 
Possibly it had been built by the Raja and was only enlarged or otherwise 
altered by the conquerors. 
Eighty years before the fall of Kol, viz., in 1193, the Dor line of 
Rajas at Baran had come to an end in the person of Chandra Sen, who 
was killed while defending: his fort against the army of Shahab-ud-dm 
Muhammad Ghori. Before he fell, an arrow from his bow had slain one 
of the leaders of the invading force, a certain Khwaja Lai Ali, whose tomb 
across the Kalindi is still reverenced as that of a martyr. The gate was 
opened to the enemy by two traitors, one a Brahman named Hira Sinh, the 
other Ajaypal, himself a Dor, who probably hoped by this act of perfidy 
to secure recognition as the future head of the family and the most fitting 
person to continue its hereditary honours. All, however, that he actually 
obtained from the conqueror was the subordinate post of Chaudhari, with the 
sonorous title of Malik Muhammad Daraz Kadd ; the latter being the reward 
for his profession of Islam ; while the administration of the new province 
was conferred upon a fellow-countryman of the victorious General, Kazi 
