Indian Antiquary Vol 31

SR No.: 032523
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 556
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[DECEMBER, 1902.
The other class has a cross-section, which is more than a semi-circle; their breadth is about 94 inches, of the former class, one has a corner bevelled off, as shown in the sketch (Fig. 6); half of it is broken length-wise. While on the subject of bricks, I would mention another peculiar brick with an og eo pection, found in the south-west room of the vihára, I exhumed at the Kalla Taldo (Fig. 7). Among the number of bricks in the deep excavations at Khári Kan I found some pieces of plaster which show comice and other linings.
FIG. 4
F16.5
ASOKA FRAGMENT.
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SPERIMEN OF BRICKS FROM KÁR KÜAV, KUMRÁNAR
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ig! F16.6.
F16.7
F16.8
CS FROM KNARÎ KUAN.
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BRICK FROM KALLU TALÃO. CORNICE PLASTER FROM KHART KUAN.
VII. On the west of the village of Kumraher, and in the fields, I examined all the wells, new and old, and in many of them I detected remains of walls. In a ruined one, I commenced excavations and exposed some thick walls. On the east of Kumraher are also extensive ruins and a big tank, now dried up. About half a mile west of Kumrahar, and on the east bank of an ancient tank, now known by the name of Waris 'All Khan's Tank, is a high mound, now covered with Muhammadan graves. Thinking it to be a Bhuddhist stripa, I began excavating its western face, and exposed both Muhammadan and anterior Hindu walls. It was most interesting to see the different layers of débris, one above the other. The excavation showed a ghát (Alight of steps), which Waris All Khân repaired about hundred years ago, with two octagonal bastions at the two ends. See sketch, Fig. 9.
VIII. North of this tank is the high road, to the north of which is a small brick-field. On the roadside, where the brick-makers had made a deep pit in order to obtain clay, they exposed the old bed of the channel of the Sahan, which used to flow here in ancient times, as evidenced by the deep layer of yellowish sand - whence the Sóhan was called by Sanskrit writers Hiraṇya-båhu, the golden-armed, Towards and underneath the road ditch is visible a large portion of a wall, made of large bricks. A little north of the brick-field is the railway line, and about 200 yards still further north is the Baland Bagh, where Dr. Waddell locates a dhára. The importance of this bit of wall will therefore be understool.
(To be continued.)