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 298 SAN These tombs seem to have been constructed about the end of the four- teenth century. One of them has evidently been chiefly built out of the ruins of a Hindu temple, being made almost entirely of large blocks of kankar of different sizes. At the edge and in front of the raised plat- form are two large blocks, of which the upper surface has been hewn into the segment of a large circle. In their present position these stones are without use or meaning. They have apparently been originally a part of the doorway of a Hindu shrinc. Other fragments of pillars and bas-reliefs, belonging probably to the same building, are collected at the shrines of the Mangla and Gobardhani Debis. In Munshiganj there is a masonry well of great age, said to be of a date prior to the Sombansis under Rája Santan, and called Mítha kuáu or the well of sweet waters. It was repaired during the reign of Saádat Ali Khan by Muhanımad Ali Naqi Khan, uncle of Sayyad Qutb-ud-din Husen Khan, The Khalisa and Auládganj wards contain many good masonry houses built by wealthy Ráezáda Káyaths such as the Lálas Gopál Ráe, Ganga Parshád, and Shádi Lál. Here, too, are two Thákurdwaras, erected in recent times by Beni Datt Misir and Chhote Lál Pánde. To the east of Múratganj lies the sacred shrine of the Mangla Debi. Here, in addition to the usual fragments of stone bas-relief, are two small white marble images, of which the feet and hands have been broken off, a huge block of hewa kankar, and a fragment of a red sandstone capital. Close by is the Phát Mati dher, a bas-relief representing a pagoda-like structure, rising over a seated central figure with attendants, of apparently Buddhist type. In Nawabganj there is a fine sarse. This ganj was built by one Sabadh Gir Gosháin, à military officer in the Nawabi. In this quarter used to be cantoned some of the ex-kings troops, with guns. The road to Bil. gráma and Hardoi passes through Nawabganj, which is by far the most tbriving mart in Sándi. A mile from the town in Admapur at the edge of the lake a little spring wells up and trickles into it. The spot is called “ Brahmávart," and is regarded with peculiar veneration by the Hindus of the neighbourhood. Here a grove has been planted, and in it over the sacred spring is a little shrine tended by a few priests. SANDILA Pargana* _Tahsil SANDILA-District HARDOI.— The princi- pal subdivision of tahsil Sandíla in the Hardoi district. It consists of 213 villages. On the north it is bounded by pargana Gopamau, on the west by parganas Bálamau and Mallánwán, on the south-west and south by parganans Bangarmaui, Safipur, and Mohán Aurás of Lucknow, on the east by parganas Gundwa and Kalyán Mal, and across the Gumti by par- gana Aurangabad of Sitapur. The Sai flows along the greater part of its south-western and southern border. • By Mr, A. H. Brrington, C.S.