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THE INDIAN ANTIQUABY.
[FEBRUARY, 1903.
VII. About 500 yards north-east of the Kallu Tall, and just north of the railway line, I discovered some remains of ancient structares, of which one seemed to be an arch, the second a wall belonging to a house, and the third, a very long wall, about 200 yards long, east to west, embanking an ancient ditch. This sketch (Pig. 8), done from memory, will abow them better -
FIG.8
ANCINTUITGM
RETAINING WALL
ARCH
ANCIENT WAS ROAD
RECENTLY REMOVED. The ancient ditch turns towards the north, leading to an ancient and very large tank, on the north of which is a small temple, sacred to Sitala Devi, in which are a few relics of ancient soulptore. And just on the rest of this tank is another modern temple, probably on the site of an ancient one, where are enshrined a linga with the face of Parbati attached to it, and two carved bars, belonging to
Buddhist railing, of which several posts were recovered for the purpose of the local Museum. The linga is said to have been found in the ditch, just north of the newly-discovered wall,
VIII. On the west of the village of Kumråhar and in the fields I detected walls several feet below the present level of the ground, which should be opened and traced in order to discover the nature of the buildings they indicate.
IX. I found that the temple at Nauratanpar, and the gháfa south of the Waria 'Ali Khan's Tank, are much more interesting then at first I thought. The temple showed better as I went down, indicating several stages of construction, and the main oral chamber was found to be subdivided by
partition-walls, north to soath, and east to west, thus : elsewhere in India.
, * peculiarity I have not seen
The chats and the retaining walls I followed up to more than 400 feet east and west. The ghafe are small but pretty and are at short distances, being backed by the retaining wall, which is double in the intervening space between the ghafs. The second wall towards the Shan has a mase of brickwork, sloping towards the water of the river, which might have been intended for the cattle to drink and bathe. A sketch plan (Fig. 9) will explain my meaning: -
GROUND LEVEL
FIG. 9
GROUND LEVEL
AIN
RETAINING WALL
SECTION DOUBLE WALL
# Sopw6 GNAT
BLACK 3011
W ATERLOVE
SECTION OMAT
YELLOW SAND
BED OF THE SOHAN
| SR No. | 032524 |
| Book Title | Indian Antiquary Vol 32 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Richard Carnac Temple |
| Publisher | Swati Publications |
| Publication Year | 1984 |
| Total Pages | 550 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 20 MB |