Book Title: Kahau Stambh evam Kshetriya Puratattv ki Khoj
Author(s): Satyendra Mohan Jain
Publisher: Idrani Jain
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कहाऊँ स्तम्भ एवं क्षेत्रीय पुरातत्व की खोज
an excavation in the northern ruin, and found that the temple had consisted of a room 9 feet square with walls only 1 foot 9 inches in thickness. The building, therefore, was only 12 feet 6 inches square on the outside. In the slight sketch of this temple given by Buchanan, no dimensions are noted, but the height of the building is twice and a half its width, or about 30 feet, according to the measurement obtained by my excavation. On the ruin of the southern temple, I found a naked standing figure of life-size, similar to that on the base of the pillar.
Immediately to the north of the pillar, and on the highest point of the mound, there are traces of the brick walls of some building; and to the south east, there is an old well which has been lately filled up. Buchanan describes the pillar as having originally "stood in a small quadrangular area, surrounded by a brick wall, and probably by some small chambers."I presume that the pillar must have been placed opposite the entrance of the temple, in which the Panchendra or five images of Indra were enshrined. It is probable that there were several temples and other buildings crowded around the pillar, otherwise it will be difficult to account for the great size of the mound, which, though not more than 6 feet in height above the fields, extends from west to east up wards of 1,200 feet, with an average breadth of 400 feet. 1. Eastern India-II, p. 366 2. Bengal Asiatic Society's, Journal, 1838, p. 33 3. See Plate XXVIII 4. See Plate XXIX 5. See Plate XXX 6. Estern India, II, Plate-V 7. Bengal Asiatic Society's, Journal, 1838, Plate-I 8. Eastern India, II, p. 367
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