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Art. XII.—An Ancient Hindu Temple in the Punjāb

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

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Some twelve miles east of the junction of the Sawān with the Indus, between Makhad and Kālābāgh, and about three miles due south of the village of Shāh Muhammad Wālī in the north-west corner of the Jhelum (Jehlam) district, is an old temple called Kālar or Sassī dā Kallara, which has hitherto escaped notice. It is situated at a height of about 1,100 feet above sea-level, on the edge of a hillock rising steeply from the bank of the Kas Letī, one of the torrents, tributary to the Sawān stream, which descend from the northern face of the Salt Range; it here passes through a rough tract of hillocks and ravines. The temple is in a ruinous condition, due largely to the gradual wearing away of the soft sandstone hillside on the edge of which it stands, and its further decay will probably be rapid.

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1903

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References

page 337 note 1 “Coins of Mediæval India,” pp. 55–65.

page 337 note 2 The coins commonly found in this tract include those of the later Græco-Bactrians, and of the Indo-Scythians, Sassanian coins, those of the Brahman kings of Kabul, etc., etc.

page 338 note 1 Arch. Reports, xiv, 34.