Archaeological Survey of India. Report on a Tour in Eastern Rajputana in 1871-72 and 1872-73

The name of Ajmer might also otherwise have been derived from that of the Hers or Hairs or MeV.% the original inhabitants of Ajmer the south of Marwar and the north of klewar who 1 think must be considered as a distinct people from the Hogs or Ilagras of the Aravallis. [...] Some of the latter ins look old and several large hewn stones and some stone beams or posts are lying about the eastern side of the village on the slope of the hill ; and as the very name of the place Khelm is a term which is mostly applied to ancient sites (though not invariably so) I think it very possible that the place may once have been the site of a i ancient town of larger size. [...] 2 At the distance of 4 feet 6 inches to tho east or the socket there is the tigure of the smai or surrounding portion of a liven' carved col the horizontal surntee of the reel with a hole in the centre for the erect stone. [...] 23 ness of solid blocks which may be cut out of the RA quarries by the colossal dimensions of the great prostrate images in the temple of Deo;ji which were sculptured out of the white kind of the Riip-bas sandstone and the dimesions of which have already been given in this report. [...] jAGNAR is the name of a large well-built town at the foot and around the northern nortwestern and western slope of a precipitous isolated flat-topped rocky hill on the top of which there is an old fort and is situated towards the western extremity of an extreme angle of the British terrtory which runs between the Bharat')Ar and DholpAr States and about 36 miles to the south-west of