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Art. XVIII.—The Buddhist Monastery at Sohnāg in the Gorakhpur District
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
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In January last, having heard that important ruins at a place called Sohnāg, in the eastern part of the Gorakhpur District, where I was then stationed as Commissioner, were being excavated for bricks by a railway contractor, I caused the work to be suspended until inquiries should be made, and on the 14th January visited the ruins. The buildingdisclosed by the excavations is of such a remarkable character, unique indeed in its massive dimensions, so far as my knowledge extends, that it is desirable to place on record an accurate description of it.
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page 433 note 1 Nos. I, V, and VII accompany this paper, and are at the disposal of the Society. See Plate. The other specimens have been deposited in the Lucknow Provincial Museum.
page 434 note 1 “Archæological Survey Reports,” vol. iii, pp. 35–38, pi. xii.
page 434 note 2 I gave Professor Rhys Davids a fragment of a large black stone votive tablet, or “seal,” from Sohnāg, inscribed in characters of about the fifth century. The inscription had contained a royal genealogy.
page 435 note 1 “Eastern India,” vol. ii, p. 361, pl. iv. (London, 1838.)Google Scholar
page 435 note 2 Gazetteer of the North-Western Provinces, vol. vi, pp. 544–546. (Allahabad, 1881.)
page 436 note 1 An eye-copy of five lines of the inscription is given in “Eastern India,” vol. ii, pi. v, p. 365. Cunningham's assistant, Mr. Garrick, has published photographs of the pillar and the inscription (“Reports,” vol. xvi, pis. xxx and xxxi), from which the record might be edited. But it is greatly mutilated. The pillar is close to the bank of the river.
page 436 note 2 An eye-copy of the inscription on the Kahāoṁ pillar was published in “Eastern India,” vol. ii, pi. v, where the name of the village Kahāuṁ appears under the disguise of Kangho. The document was correctly edited and translated by Dr. Fleet (“Gupta Inscriptions ”). It records the dedication of the live Jain images carved on the pillar by one Madra, at Kakubhagrāma (Kahāuṁ), in the reign of Skanda Gupta, in the year 141 of the Gupta era, corresponding to A.D. 459. A good photograph of the pillar by Mr. Garrick will be found in pi. xxix of vol. xvi of the “Reports.”
page 436 note 3 Nonkhār is now a railway station on the Bengal and North-Western Railway. Cunningham published a slight description of the Khukhunū ruins in vol. i of the “Reports,” pp. 85–91, pi. xxviii. He calls the place Khukhundo, and says that the original name was Kiṣkindapura. I have always heard the name pronounced without the d. I regret that I have not visited the ruins.
page 436 note 4 These remains are fully described in my monograph entitled “The Remains near Kasia” (Allahabad, 1896)Google Scholar.
page 437 note 1 “Reports,” vol. i, pp. 69–73, pi. xxiv; vol. xvi, pp. 101–108, pi. xxviii; vol. xxii, pp. 42–48.