90 Nundolal Dey —Notes on Chirand in the District of Saran. [No. 2, 
mounds in Telpa which is two miles to the south-east of Chupra, one of 
which may he the remains of the toiver of the hows and deposited arms, 
as Dr. Hoey supposes the village to have been the site of the ancient 
Chapala. This part of the country therefore ought to be thoroughly 
explored, and there can be no doubt that the exploration would yield 
some results of great archaeological interest. 
Whether Chirand was the ancient Mahavana-Kutagara or not, there 
can be no doubt that even in its ruins it must have been a celebrated 
place as to have attracted the attention of Sultan Abul Muzaffar Husain 
Shah who built a beautiful mosque, now in ruins, upon a portion of the 
remains of the ancient fort or mounds in 909 Hijri, corresponding to 
1503 A.C. The inscription on the mosque was noticed by Dr. Bloch- 
mann in 1874 . 1 The Sultan would not certainly have constructed the 
mosque at this place had it not been considered to be a sacred place by 
the Hindus. 
1 Bloclimann’s Geography and History of Bengal , No. II, in the Journal of the 
Asiatic Society of Bengal of 1874, page 304. 
