A handbook for travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon . . Jt CorZiOU^ ALLAHABAD AND ENVIRONS. London. Jolm Jtliii-rAV. AlliciUArlo Sr>eat. ROUTE 2. ASOKAS LAT—AKHSHAI BAT 33 the throne. There are also minorinscriptions, beginning almost fromthe Christian era. According to MrJames Prinsep, who deciphered thisand other Asoka inscriptions in 1838(p. 61), the insertion of some ofthese inscriptions shows that thepillar was lying on the ground whenthey were cut. The Aklishai Bat (Vata) or un-dying banyan.—Hiouen Thsang, theChinese pilgrim of the 7th cent., indescribing Fray
A handbook for travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon . . Jt CorZiOU^ ALLAHABAD AND ENVIRONS. London. Jolm Jtliii-rAV. AlliciUArlo Sr>eat. ROUTE 2. ASOKAS LAT—AKHSHAI BAT 33 the throne. There are also minorinscriptions, beginning almost fromthe Christian era. According to MrJames Prinsep, who deciphered thisand other Asoka inscriptions in 1838(p. 61), the insertion of some ofthese inscriptions shows that thepillar was lying on the ground whenthey were cut. The Aklishai Bat (Vata) or un-dying banyan.—Hiouen Thsang, theChinese pilgrim of the 7th cent., indescribing Frayag, gives a circum-stantial description of the undecayingtree. In the midst of the city, hesays, stood a Brahmanical temple, towhich the presentation of a singlepiece of money procured as muchmerit as that of a thousand pieceselsewhere. Before the principal roomof the temple was a tree surroundedby the bones of pilgrims who hadsacrificed their lives there. The tree is situated under the wallof the Palace, and is reached byproceeding straight on from thePillar. Close by is a deep octagonalwell flanked by two
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