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11 inches amongst appearance Archæological Survey Attak Baghel Baijnath Bála Banâras Barmayan belongs Bhamani Bhojpur Brahmanical bricks Buddhistic building built called carved cave cells centre chamber Chandara Chârsada Cunningham Darowli Deo-Markanda Dimensions early east to west entrance excavations exhumed exist exploring feet 11 feet 6 inches feet high figure Findi fortress Gahmar Garhi gate gateway GHAZIPUR Gûrgi H. B. W. Garrick Hashtnagar Hindû inches high India inscribed inscription Jahanabad jangal Kafir Kalachuri king Kotki lingam Mahadeopur Mahavira Mahmud of Ghazni measures miles monastery mound neighbourhood north to south original ornament palace Peshawar pillars Plate portion probably Pushkalavati Râjâ Rânigat remains Rewa rock ruins Sanskrit Sappers Satna sculptures Shahabad shrine Singh situated south-west square stone stûpa surrounding SURVEY OF INDIA Swiris tank temple thick tion tope traces tribe Umarzai Vaidyanath Vaishnav village Ditto ditto visited walls Yûsufzai
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Page 117 - ... feet in breadth. In 1848 I estimated its height at 1,000 feet, but from the unanimous assertions of the people that it is higher than Panjpir, I think that it is probably not less than 1,200 feet. The sides of the hill are covered with massive blocks of stone, which make it exceedingly rugged and inaccessible. There is only one road, cut in the rock, leading to the top, although there are two, if not more, rather difficult pathways. This, we know, was also the case with Aornos, as Ptolemy succeeded...
Page 111 - Sitrdm and Sitardmi, all of which I believe to be simple corruptions of the name of the famous Buddhist Prince Suddna or Sudatta." My own enquiries elicited the following information on this and other similar subjects of a topographical nature : — That formerly in the Sitardmi or Hindu period, three powerful brothers ruled west of the Indus. The capital of The brothers Bagram, each of these Kdt or Kafir Kings, S* of SavS named Bdgrdm, Sdgrdm and Ndgrdm Takt-i-Bahi and Nagram.
Page 119 - ... is covered on all sides with massive blocks of stone, which make the approach very rugged and difficult. Numbers of these stones are of very large size, and some of those on the top of the hill have been hollowed out to form cells. Mr. Loewenthal notices this as "one of the most marked features
Page 9 - Deo-Barundrak temples to about the end of the ninth, or beginning of the tenth, century...
Page 19 - .- , simple cube or about 12 feet, but to this has been added, of late years, a very ugly pyramidshaped top. I heard from the Brahmans that this top was added about 16 years ago by the Babu brothers before mentioned, and constitutes their sole interest in these remains. The floor...
Page 111 - During my stay at Shahbaz-garhi I made a survey of the neighbourhood, and was surprised to find that the present village was the site of a very old and extensive city, which, according to the people, was once the capital of the country. They pointed to several mounds of ruins as having been inside the city, and to two well-known spots named Khaprai and Khapardarrd, as the sites of the northern and eastern gates of the city.
Page 117 - Mah&ban, by a rocky ridge, which on the north side rises to an equal height. On all sides the castle rock is scarped, and on two sides it is separated from the surrounding ridge by deep ravines, that to the north being 100 feet deep, and that to the west from 50 to 150 feet. At the north-west angle of the castle two dykes have been thrown across the ravine, which would appear to have been intended to arrest the flow of water, and thus to form a great reservoir in the west hollow. In the north ravine,...
Page 22 - ... agree exactly with that of. the inscription in every other essential, is easily explained by the popular inclination, manifest almost everywhere, to shorten and curtail proper names, and not being in this instance part of the name proper, but merely a religious epithet similar to the prefix "Faqir " in Muhammadan proper names, it is not necessary to this identification. Moreover, it would appear that this tank was very old, as further on in the same account already partly quoted we learn that...
Page 117 - Rdnigat, there are three square wells, and to the north-east lower down I thought that I could trace another dyke, which was most probably only the remains of part of the outer line of defences. The entire circuit of this outer line is about 4,500 feet, or somewhat less than a mile * The castle itself is thus described by Mr.
Page 24 - C Kakahai-garh is a low mound, exhibiting in places traces of broken pottery and situated about half a mile north-east of the village of Baijndth. It at present bears very good crops of wheat, and, while ploughing here, it is related that a labourer found a number of gold coins about 90 years ago. A nameless solid brick mound also exists a little to the south of Baijndth, on which there are some fine old trees and sculptures, and the bricks of which it is composed are mostly large. The tanks of Vaidyandth...