Jainism in Bihar

Author(s): P C Roy Choudhary
Publisher: P C Roy Choudhary Patna

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or Rhododendrons that I observed. On the other hand I saw Plantains at a considerable height on the North side. The ground is not of a very compact, rocky nature, so that it would be cleared and levelled without much difficulty, There is no want of soil upon it which would be good for gardens and useful as a cement in building.
9. The grass jungle about the sides and near the top of the Hill is thick, and though it dries up or is burned in the bot season, it at present bides from view much of the character of the surface.
10. The Thermometer which had been 84 at the Topchancee Bungalow at noon, stood this day at noon at 69o a difference of 15, but though cool and pleasant it was not decidedly or unpleasantly cold without a fire either in the day or night.
11. The only place to obtain cover in at or near the top is the Temple which has an inner room about 16 feet square with a verandah all round, 8 feet wide, containing four small rooms at the corners.
12. It has a stone platform or chabootra about 40 feet square on the East side, which is supported as the Temple itself is by a revetment wall 10 or 12 feet high on the outer or steep side of the Hill. At the foot of the revetment wall is the principal spring giving just now in the rains an abundance of water, and perennial. Twenty yards above the Temple is another smaller spring, the stream from which has evidently been formerly led into a stone reservoir 8 feet square, and 41 feet deep, on the West side of the Temple. This was formerly surrounded by a garden, the rose bushes of which are now nearly hidden by grass and jungle, and the cistern is choked with mud and rubbish. I think it may be found advisable to construct a larger cistern hereafter as a reservoir for water for which there would be plenty of room in this place. The whole North side of the Hill including the environs of the Temple is finely wooded. There is no 30