Jainism in Bihar

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

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one whatever resident at the top, and the Temple though carefully and expensively built and provided with good doors and staples for padlocks, is open and unguarded.
13. Chunar stone and marble have been used liberally in its construction, and I found slabs of an excellent slate in the platform for which, as it is believed to come from the neighbourhood. I have directed further search to be made.
14. On the following day the weather still continuing very heavy with clouds and rain, as indeed it was at this time all over the country, with no prospect of clearing up, and having succeeded in finding several Bungalow sites on the Hill which for the present was all I desired, I left the Temple in order to return to Topchancee Bungalow.
15. Having come up the South side, I proposed to return by the North; and the Madhoobund Road which turns the left or West flank of the Mountain, being well known and frequently traversed by visitors, while another passing round the East flank to Topchancee was not at all known to European travellers, I chose the latter.
16. For some distance, viz., about 8 miles, the two roads are the same. After ascending the first of a mile to the summit of the Hill the road leads by a rather steep descent to an extensive and comparatively level plateau which is probably 1,000 feet below the Hill above. On the West side of this a large and perennial stream, the "Seeta Nullah," flows to the Plains falling into the Burrakur, and beyond it a smaller but more elevated knoll projects from the Hill side at a high elevation free from trees, on which no doubt one or more houses could be built, with a fine North exposure and protected from the Southerly winds. It is also not far from the source of the "Seeta Nullah," which however still remains to be explored, and the quantity of water it will afford in the dry months, ascertained.
17. If the large plateau be 1,000 feet below the main Hill it would be about 3,500 feet high above the Sea. This
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