Report on the Antiquities in the District of Lalitpur North-West Provinces India. (Vol. 1 Text Volume 2 Plates)

Babu Poorno Chancier Mukerji was employed under the Public Works Department of the Government Of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh during portions of the years 1887 and 1888 in making a survey of the ancient buildings and other antiquities in the Lalitpur SuDivision of the Jhansi District. [...] Chanderi (Chandravati=Sandravatis of the Greeks) is said to have been the capital of Vakradanta the father of Sishupala who was killed by Krishna about 3101 B. C. The aborigines were evidently the Saharias (Savaras) and latterly Gonds both of whose descenants still exist few and far between in the forest villages of the hills that occupy the southern part of the district. [...] In course of time the mound primarily ancestral grave and the seat of ancestral worship was transformed into the Samadhimi of the Brahmans and Sivas of the Buddhists the pyramids of the Egyptians and Mexicans and the tomb-temples of other ancient nations which were made hollow for the purpose of worship. [...] In the aureole of images this foiled circle is always seen around the head The terms of the parts of the so-called Saracenic (five-foiled) arch are all Hindu; the Naga reminds one of the uplifted proboscis of the crocodile (Diagram 2 Fig. [...] That the cave was not copleted is shown by the irregular form of the chamber and the flight of steps which is not carried to the level of the river.