Report of a Tour through the Bengal Provinces/Lakhisarai and Rághogarh

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2081368Report of a Tour through the Bengal Provinces — Lakhisarai and RághogarhJoseph David Freedone Melik Beglar

LAKHISARAI, RÁGHOGARH AND BALGUDAR.

The group of villages, Rajjhâna, Rághogarh, Lakhisarai, Jaynagar, Birdaban, Hasanpur, and Nongarh, have already been described by General Cunningham, and I have little to add. At Rághogarh I dug at the site of the singularly beautiful pillar, and was rewarded by finding two bases—one perhaps in situ; these bases are quite plain and of granite; they are 10 inches deep; one is 2 feet square, the other 1 foot 7 inches square; they ran due east and west, and were 4 feet 12 inches clear space apart; the smaller one was, however, 1 foot higher than the other.