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r Along the fields, and by^the-roa'd si><|'e,: between, Jetis. a.nd>Mdgelan,. are
seen invditchqgfpc-,qlsewherg, man^beinttfuiTemiii|^oflsculpture, and among
them niamy, ypdis and Ungafns'; whereythey,.sefebi-jnot iorilydtp ]be, entirely
disregarded hey/thfenatives ibng. thrown,on one side^as, if in the ’watyinci.
ifitT h e> in g ^ jS®W a c ep ^ ;t^'given by, Dr/ryBbi sfield /ofrfRe-i ruins. found!
in the Eastern P^oyinjegSjtQfi^he)ngfryp-princes, »in^the- year 1815.. <
, KEDIRI^.&c.’ \
“-In the districts1- hf' Jdga/ra’gct, Chayifyan, Ra'ipq,, Kaldngbret, Treng&liy
PranardgUi' and M'ageian,_s thes,e 'antiquities are dispersed. solitary af-pccii-
siogaj, points, and -cpniist principallyt.o£-images or richas. The {remains Of
building?, and of^.to.wns and cities, generally /distinguished jjpy 'the,name
,of Rr^a-ie/idk,-are als;o noticed,, but Mddio%'Kertasana, ,15edzr% and,Srerig’dt,
contain ^ygry impontdpt. and interestirig, antiquities.n
In regarding, theni,i/tbey ^icifqty'j of? the fofmpr, bapital oft the princes of
the,djious&; ®£\>Mqjapdhit stfifeingly offers itself jforconsideration-; and a
travellfe^gi^^^e^tbem An -increaser-in number/ as^-h’ejjproceetls "‘from' the
Joftbe; eastern districts..,,
Kediri, &c.
-^Commpncing my^noiicespfrQm..the; westward, I have, j to point .out-.in
Mddion, fourj, monuments, orj/stones* coyered-i with,! ihscripjtiQUs*: these,-
r?ith Several pedestalst. and ^other' remains.of, ancientr buildings,'-1 have
been .collected <'and employed Jafj Mauspdti, the capital' of, Mddion, lately
established, by Rdden Rdng'ga, the well,known,rebel o f the Y&gya-herta
court. On the largest/oft-these monuments the characters of. the/,inscrip-
tidp^are still in a great ^degree-distinguishable, and these.!’ haye, carefully-
taken off;\on the-others,-; which are smaller,, .the characters,; although completely''
perceivable, are too. much obliterated, by the decomposition .and
decay of-the substance of,the stone4$' afford a-;.cjopy., Besides, these: ittr
scripfions; remains&fr buildings,, pedestals, andraect o of/different sizes,
haye also$>pen collected from jvaribh^p'arts of, this, province, and employed
to llecorate a well and .bath,-near tlie capital. //After a considerable,inter-
ruption, which, contains no remains at present, I discovered,- in a direction
almost due east from, Mauspdti, in the district of Arypg; a monument;.with
an inscription in,.a more perfept^state.- In form this, as well as the others,
resembles the common tomb-stones of our burial grounds, exceeding them
only in size: its dimensions -have been carefully taken. Four sides are
von. ii. - F covered