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कहाऊँ स्तम्भ एवं क्षेत्रीय पुरातत्व की खोज
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Appendix. 4: Archaeological Survey of India, vol.1, 1871, page 91-95, plate 28, 29, 30.
XXII. KAHAON : The village of Kahaon is situated eight miles to the south of Khukhundo, and 40 miles to the south-east of Gorakhpur in a direct line. To the north of the village there is a stone pillar, and also some other remains, which have been described by Dr. Buchanan' and by Mr. Liston?. Dr. Buchanan calls the villate Kangho, but the name is written Kahaon, or kahawan, by the people of the place, and I can only surmise that Buchanan's kangho may have been originally written Kanghon, and that the final nasal has been omitted by mistake, either in copying or in printing. In the inscription on the pillar the village would seem to be called kakubharati; and from some compound of Kakubha, such as Kakubhawan, the name of Kahãivan would be naturally derived.
* The remains at Kahaon consist of an inscribed stone pillar, an old well, two ruined temples, and several tanks. The whole of these, together with the village itself, are situated on a low but extensive mound of brick ruin. Although the mound is of rather irregular outline on the east side, it may be best described as a square of nearly 500 yards3. The village occupies the south - Western quarter of the square, and contains some fine old wells build of very large bricks, which are a sure sign of antiquity. The tanks, which would seem to have been connected with the old buildings, are all called gar, the meaning of which I was unable to ascertain, but which as applied to water, much certainly be derived from the Sanskrit gri, to wet. These tanks are, 1st, the Purena-gar, a dirty pond immediately to the north of the village; 2nd, the karhahi-gar,
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