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patti and Tamkuhi on the South east, and to Samur and Chapra on the south. Close to the town on the north flows the Bansi which becomes a running stream only in the rain. It probably represents an ancient course of the Gandak, a theory which was strengthened by the discovery in 1878 of a large boat during the excavation of a tank.
The site is evidently of great antiquity, and General Cunningham1 identified it with the Pawa of the Buddhist pilgrims. To the south of the town is a large mound covered with broken bricks, about 220 feet broad from east to west 120 feet long and 14 feet high. It is supposed to mark the site of a Buddhist monastery which perhaps contained one of the prin cipal relic stupes, since the people of pawa obtained one-eight of the relices after Buddha's cremation. To the north of this is an old and ruinous Jain temple containing fragments of sculptures, close to which a new temple has recently been erected.
1. C. A. S. R., 1, 74; XVI, 118
In the earliest times this region was undoubtedly a centre of Buddhist worship and civilization, as is abundantly proved by the remains at Kasia and at Prdrauna. If, as is highly probable, the Kasia ruins are to be identified with those visited by the Chinese pilgrims in the fifth and seventh century, this tract contained one of the most venerated decline of that religion the country seems to have relapsed into jungle, and even in the days of Huien-Tsang, it was covered with forest and infested by wild beasts and robbers.
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