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iliRCH, 1875.] NOTES ON THE THANA COLLECTOKATE. 69 the pilaster next the well has something carved in it like a medallion, bnt I conld not make oujlwhat, and suspect that thin a later hand — the simple circle suits so much p with the BOverj^s^de of the pillars. This inner verandah opens by three doors into the great hall. The centre door is mo n andhastwii pilasters, and two stools in front which seem to represent a basket or jar car- ried upon some one's head, the hands cla the edge to keep it steady. The outlines of three tiny Chaitys arches are lightly eh' over it, as an ornament It is 7£ feet high, and 4 feet 7 inches wide. The side doors are plainer, but have small standing figures at The left one is 6 feet 10 inches high at p) and 3 feet 8 inches wide. The right one 7 9 in. by S ft. 10 in. The inner Hall is 14 yards long by 7 wide, and about 10 or 11 feet high. A cell or shrine lias been hewn pretty deep into the centre of the innermost Avail, but hit quite rough; and jnaller ones have been commentvd right and left of it. In the shrine and inner verandah are placed rude modern images of the present tenant, a " Gftmdevi" called Khandeswar, She is a Yogini, and first cousin to Wazreswar both in nature and name (JeJimtda = a sword). There is one rough block of stone in the inner hall (uncertain what it represents if anything) ; and a linga in the outer verandah. A little higher up the hillside to the I ITO or small cells, unfinished. The closest 688. FCn, with a large grass fire burning in the hall and shrine, failed to show any inscriptions, nor was there any ancient image. The sculp- tured figures, I think, are decorative, and not meant to be worshipped. There is u small ,1 figure under a rillage between the Harm teat i but ho does not give mo the idea of Buddha. These temples are so easy od from Bom- bhal it is tu be hoped some effort will be made to photograph or mould the figures in the outer verandah : I should think either process would ■ from t ho position of the sculp- tares.* . The fullou-ii iptions above allnded t". in the tomb of Husaiu Shah at Bhi- vandi : — On I t ^Lw'T ~±} fcr-*j| f!** *?£** j}- Mil (a.d.)1699 On the $-M>lh U**«| Ux M «J*&J| JuJ |<a£a ^b c . : , i>J| wJbi Jli tf^jtf t«*— f V^'l u-JJ i 1 ir 0» flu: ^oll I-. U J{ ^ b J&*U3 ij,tj oaS Ifll v_^*ij U | ,>b «U |^Uc ^iy s * s IMA (A.D.) 1706 <£jj^ - Uu • I hare rince completed ft very full set of notes of IUmo sculptures for tuo India h Antn't-u-ry. On / t^jSsWM A^jity. ejla.^+s* <y i'>Jl^" **» .*-» life* f*rr ^r^fr *tct pr^r *fm^H wf^c iitf *f- frilT HTTTo ^W TPK1T. Sayad KutbuVTn Muhammri I KhJin Bahadur built this milk-well i 1684,; B**n 11S1. (.i>. l7«"-2> Xaik BftbalePathttrwat.t + Xaioo of the stonecutter.