Majhauli Raj

"The Rajas of Majnauli belong to the Višvëna family of Kshatriyas, fabled to have sprung from an ancient sage named Mayürabhatta, who practised penance at a place now called Kakràdih situated some 15 miles south-west of Majhauli. The place is still considered holy and every new successor to the Raj is anointed at his installaton with clay specially brought from there."

"Majhaul at the present day possesses but few antiquities, Indeed, the only ones worth mentioning are an image of the Mahishasuramardini Durga, lying under a tree near the Raja's palace, and a ruined shrine of Dirghëšvara Mahadéva of unknown date, situated among a mass of ancient remains a little to the east of the town. Majhauli must have been a place of some importance in past ages, if, as suggested by Dr. Fleet, it should prove to be the place where Buddha crossed the Anuma. It is true that some four miles from Majhauli near the railway line between the stations of Salémpur and Bhatni there is a small but ancient village called Anuümpar meaning "across the Anuma” or more freely “the crossing of the Anuma,” which may well be an арabramsa of Anuma, but the absence of апу stream of such a name anywhere in the neighbourhood offers a difficulty in the way of the identification, The channel running past the village is called Рusi. Nor does the locality show any remains which can be called Buddhist."

"That the name was spelt as Majhauli at least as far back as the time of Raja Bodhmall, a contemporary of Aurangzeb, is proved by a paper document dated in Samvat 1692 kindly shown to me by the Maharaja Sahib. The same spelling occurs in a Persian inscription discovered by Dr. Bloch in the Pathar-ki-masjid at Patna, which states that the material for the building of the mosque was obtained from a temple and a fort demolished at Majhauli for the purpose."

"I made the car stop,... and took my friends to the upper part of the historic Pathar-ki-masjid. One of my American friends was an Arabist, but there was nothing for him to read, for the demoralised custodians had the inscription plastered with cement, considering that it contained provocative references."

"Years ago, Dr. Bloch had seen an inscription in the Patthar-kî-Masjid at Patna, the capital of Bihar, stating that the materials for the mosque were obtained from a Hindu temple at Majhauli (now in the Gorakhpur District of Uttar Pradesh).11 The temple was demolished in AH 1036 (AD 1626) by Prince Parwiz, a son of the Mughal emperor Jahãngîr. “I made the car stop,” writes Syed Hasan Askari, “and took my friends to the upper part of the historic Patthar-ki-Masjid. One of my American friends was an Arabist, but there was nothing for him to read, for the demoralised custodians had the inscription plastered with cement, considering that it contained provocative references.”12 Some friends of this author who visited the Jãmi‘ Masjid at Sambhal in the Moradabad District of Uttar Pradesh had the same experience when they expressed a desire to have a look at the inscriptions. This mosque was built in AD 1526 by an officer of Bãbur on the site and from the materials of the local Hari Mandir."