PLACES OF INTEREST

KALAMBHOM.

Kalambhom is a Bassein village, on the right bank of the Tansa, about eighteen miles east of Manikpur. In the village, lying on the ground, is a large stone twelve feet long, three feet broad, and about a foot thick. It is covered with nine-inch figures in high relief, arranged in a number of level rows or panels. The stone is probably a paliya or memorial stone. One of the inscribed stones in the Collector's garden at Thana was brought from Kalambhom. It measures three feet seven inches long by one foot eight inches broad. At the top are the sun and moon; below is an inscription of six lines, and, below the inscription, is the usual ass-curse with three lines of two letters each on its left. The letters are Devanagari, carelessly engraved, and the language Sanskrit. The inscription has no date. It records, in the reign of the Silhara king Aparaditya, probably Aparaditya II. (A.D. 1187), the grant, to one Vararayapati, of a garden (?) in the village of Kaniyar, apparently Kanher about eight miles west of Kalambhom.