Report of a Tour through the Bengal Provinces/Utrain
Utrain is a small village near Páli. To the west of the village is a small mound with lingam, and fragments of statues scattered about, there is also a fine carved black stone door-jamb.
A small mound adjarent is known as Himmat Khan’s garh. It is an inclosure on a mound of earth, and contains six graves; close to it is a small mound which contains bricks and the remains of two graves. The great mound is 25 feet above the level of the country, and is doubtless the site of an old temple; it is 300 feet long and 200 feet wide. The entrance to the dargah, if dargah it be, is on the south; the entrance has two jambs and an architrave of rough granite; the lower sill is a rough pillar set flat.
To the east of the village, near a tope of trees, is a small mound with numerous fragments; among them are several of Ganeça, Haragauri, Naudi, &c., all Saivic. In a room on the mound, whose walls have half tumbled down, and which is 14¾ feet square, is a great lingam 5 feet 9 inches in circumference, 1 foot 10 inches high to the round part, and 2 feet 3 inches high to the apex; the argha extends 1 foot 9 inches all round beyond the lingam.
The room was once roofed by a vault, as fragments of it exist on the ground to this day; the bricks used measure 11 inches × 8 inches, and 9 inches × 6 inches.
The remains doubtless represent a modern shrine built on the site of an older temple.