PLACES OF INTEREST

KARANJON.

In Karanjon, a Bassein village about ten miles north-east of Manikpur, was found an inscribed stone, 4' 10" long by 1' 7" broad and 7" thick, which is now in the Collector's garden at Thana. Above, between figures of the sun and moon, begins an inscription of thirteen lines in dim spoilt letters difficult to read. All that can be made out, and even this is doubtful, are in the third and fourth lines the words ' the illustrious Haripaldev, the chief of the Mahamandaleshvars, adorned with all the royal titles.' Haripal, it appears from another stone inscription, was a Silhara king who ruled about the end of the eleventh century.