Several interesting sculptures, and one long and well preserved inscription, are also to be seen at the Krishna Dwarika temple.

In the neighbourhood of the Vishnu-pad there is a deep tank called Suraj Künd, to the west of which is a temple to Surya or the Sun. The vestibule of this temple is formed of two double rows of pillars, all ten feet in height, and all leaning more or less to the north. There are five pillars in cach row. The whole temple, both inside and outside, has been repeatedly white-washed, so as almost to conceal the ornaments of the pillars. One long inscription was found inside, and a second was afterwards obtained by scraping off the thick coating of white-wash from a part of the wall pointed out by a good-natured Brahman. This inscription was the valuable one first mentioned as containing a date in the era of the death of Buddha.

The several hills in the immediate neighbourhood are also esteemed holy, and are accordingly crowned with temples. The highest of these, to the south of the town, is called Brahmjuin, or Brahma-yoni, the temple on its summit being dedicated to the Sakti, or female energy of Brahma, whose five-headed statue is enshrined in the temple.* This figure is placed on an old pedestal which is said to have been inscribed with a verse stating the date of erection in V. S. 1690 or A. D. 1633. The destruction of the statue is attributed with much probability to Aurang Shah. On the left hand of this statue there is a small two-armed standing figure with a horse on the pedestal. It is, therefore, most probably a statue of Sambhunâth, the 3rd of the 24 Jain hierarchs, whose cognizance is a horse. Beside this figure there is a group of Siva and Pârvati with the Bull Nandi below, and a short imperfect inscription in three lines, of which only one-half now remains. The characters belong to the period of the 10th or 11th century. The hill is 450 feet in height, and very steep on the town side. But the ascent has been rendered easy to pilgrims by the erection of a long flight of steps from the base to the summit by the Mahratta Deva Rao Bhao Saheb, since the accession of the present Maharaja Jáyaji, of Gwalior, that is, within the last 18 years, as recorded on an inscription slab let into the pavement.

See Plate III. for the position of this hill. This statue belongs properly to Siva who has five heads, as Brahma has only four heads.