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মদীয়া- কাহিনী । Y tDDBJD DLDLDSKiD DDD gDLtB BOB DuD DBBDDDBSTBz এখানে তিলিকুলে রাণাঘাটের কৃষ্ণ পান্তীর ভাগনেয়াস্বরূপ সরকার csg: qța (যাহার নাম হইতে নদীয়ার স্বরূপগঞ্জের নাম হইয়াছে) ব্যবসায়ে উন্নতি করিয়া বিপুল জমিদারী ক্ৰয় করিতেছিলেন। শিবনিবাস স্বৰূপের পুত্র বৃন্দাবন সরকার From hence we went tu two of the other temples which were both octagonal, with domes not unlike those of glass houses. They were both dedicated to Siva, ( who Abdullah, according to his Mussnlman notions, said was the same with Asan, and contained nothing but the symbol of the deity, of black marble.) The villagers asked if I would see the Raja's palace. On my assenting, they led to a really noble Gothic gateway, overgrown with beantiful broad leaved ivy but in good preservation and decidedly handsomer though in pretty much the same style, with the "Holy Gate” of the Kremlin in Moscow. Within this, which had apparently been the entrance into the city, extended a broken but still stately avenue of tall trees, and on either side a wilderness of ruined buildings, over grown with trees and brushwood, which reminded Stowe of the baths of Caracalla, and me of the upper part of the city of Caffa. I asked who had destroyed the place, and was told Serajh Dowla, an answer which (as it was evidently a Hindu ruin) fortunately suggested to me the name of the Raja Kissen Chand. On asking whether this had been his residence, one of the peasants answered in the affirmative, adding that the Raja's grand children yet lived hard by. By this I supposed he meant some where in the neighbourhood, sincenothing here promised shelter to any beings but wild beasts. 彝 爆 Our guide meantime turned short to the right, and led us into what were evidently the ruins of a very extensive palace, Some parts of it reminded ne of Conway castle, and others of Bolton Abbey. It had towers like the former, though of less stately height, and had also long and striking cloisters of Gothic arches, but all overgrown with ivy and jungle, roofless and desolate. Here, however, in a court, whose gate way had still its old folding doors on their hinges and the two boys whom we had seen on the beach came forward to meet us, were aunounced to us as the great grand of Raja Kissen Chund, and invite a nvited us very conrteously in Pers enter their fathers dwellongo у y in Persian, to