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In 1930 Pandit Kameshwar Dayal, then Deputy Collector at Cawnpore, published a note on a mound situated on a bend of the river Rind about two miles to the east of Bhikdeo, an important village in the Derapur tahsil of the Cawnpore district. The mound covers an area of about 35 bighas and rises to a height of 35 feet. It contained large bricks measuring 30 in. by 20 in. by 4½ in., evidently used for building purposes, and had yielded beads, coins, and other objects. Among the coins recovered from the site were copper coins of the Mathura Satrap Hagamasha. From these finds Pt. Dayal concluded that the mound of Ujjhān was a site of archæological interest which would repay excavation and ought to be declared protected under the Ancient Monuments Act. These recommendations however do not appear to have been acted upon.
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page 25 note 1 Jl. U. P. Hist. Soc., vol. iv, part 2 (1930), pp. 42–45Google Scholar. From information supplied by Pt. Dayal, it appears that the correct name of the site is Ujjhiān.
page 25 note 2 Rām., ii, 71, 12. Gorresio's edition has Urjihānā.
page 25 note 3 This name seems to refer to the famous undecaying fig-tree of Prayāga (now Allahabad) which is also mentioned by Hsüan-tsang (Watters, vol. i, p. 362) and by Alberuni.
page 25 note 4 Nauclea Cadamba or Terminalia tomentosa, according to B.R.
page 26 note 1 It deserves notice that in the account of the journey of Arjuna, Bhīmasena, and Krsna from the Kuru-country to Magadha, the kingdom of Jarāsandha, the great rivers to be crossed, including the S'oṇā, are mentioned in due order (Mahābhārata, Sabhāparvan, adhy. 20, 26–30). The name Ujjihānā does not occur in the Great Epic. See Sörensen's Index.
page 26 note 2 Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott with a biographical and critical memoir by Palgrave, F. T.. London, 1881, p. 55Google Scholar.
page 27 note 1 Journal asiatique, XI, v, p. 95.
page 27 note 2 Cf. Archxologica Orientalia in memoriam Ernst Herzfeld, pp. 226–234 and Bull. School of Or. & Afr. Studies, vol. xiv, pp. 78–86.
page 28 note 1 The excavator should keep in mind that according to the Mahāmāyūrī the local Yakṣa of Ujjihāna was called Vakula.