A handbook for travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon . . .Miri Miut;.v, Srr. ROUTE 9. GWALIOR FORT 109 stone, and was once a very finebuilding. The Bhairon or Bansur gatewas the work of one of the earliestKachhwaha Rajas. It was calledBansur, from batisur archer, bamboo-splitter, from the guardwhich had the charge of it. It hasnow been removed. The Ganesh Gate was built byDungar Singh, who reigned 1424to 1454. Outside is a small outworkcalled Kabutar Khana, or pigeon-house, in which is a tank calledNur Saugar, 60 ft x 39 ft. and 25 Here, too, is a Hindu temp

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A handbook for travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon . . .Miri Miut;.v, Srr. ROUTE 9. GWALIOR FORT 109 stone, and was once a very finebuilding. The Bhairon or Bansur gatewas the work of one of the earliestKachhwaha Rajas. It was calledBansur, from batisur archer, bamboo-splitter, from the guardwhich had the charge of it. It hasnow been removed. The Ganesh Gate was built byDungar Singh, who reigned 1424to 1454. Outside is a small outworkcalled Kabutar Khana, or pigeon-house, in which is a tank calledNur Saugar, 60 ft x 39 ft. and 25 Here, too, is a Hindu templesacred to the hermit Gwalipa, fromwhom the fort had its name. It isa small square open pavilion, with acupola on four pillars. There is alsoa small mosque with a chronogramgiving a date corresponding to1664 Before reaching the LakhskmanGate is a temple hewn out of thesolid rock and called Chatar-bhuj-mandir, shrine of the four-armed,sacred to Vishnu, inside which, onthe left, is a long inscription, datedSamwat 933 = 876 It is 12 , with

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