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=Buner=
A tract of country lying between 34° 22' and 34° 37' N.
and 72° 15' and 72° 48 E., on the north-east border of Peshawar Dis-
trict, North- West Frontier Province. Its boundaries are : on the north.
Swat Kohistan ; on the west, Swat and Sam Ranizai ; on the south,
dependent tribes and Peshawar District ; on the east, the Black Moun-
tain and Hazara District. Political control is exercised by the Deputy-
Commissioner of Peshawar through the Assistant Commissioner at
Mardan. Buner comprises the basin of the Barandu river, which
joins the Indus near Amb.

The main valley of the Barandu is about
10 miles broad, well cultivated and level ; and though the side valleys
are narrower and less fertile, they are better wooded. The aloofness of
the inhabitants, arising from the fact that no trade arteries pierce the
countr}', is very marked. They are, however, recognized by the clans
who live between Buner and Peshawar District, such as the Gaduns,
Salarzai, Khudu Khel, &c., as the head of their confederacy.

The history of the tract is given in the article dealing with Swat.
Buner with the neighbouring countries was included in the ancient
kingdom of Udyana, and abounds in archaeological remains of great
interest, which date from the Buddhist era. The places most interest-
ing from an archaeological view in Buner, or in the territory of tribes
dependent on it, are Mahaban, Banj, Asgram, Panjkotai, (iumbatai, and
Girarai. Mahaban has been conjecturally identified with Aornos, the
rock besieged by Alexander : Init the latest view, that of Dr. Stein, who
visited Mahaban under tribal escort in 1904, is that the topography of
Aornos is inapplicable to Mahaban, and that the real Aornos, if there be
such a place, must be sought elsewhere. In the same tour Banj was
examined ; and the suggestion has been made that it is the famous
place of Buddhist pilgrimage, at which a shrine was built to commemo-
rate the offering of his body by the Buddha to feed a starving tigress.
The buildings described by the Chinese pilgrims are now completely in
ruins and all sculptures have been removed.

The ruins at Asgram are of some interest, and the place has been
identified with the Asigramma of Ptolemy. Buner proper was traversed
by Dr. Stein in January, 1898, with the force dispatched for the punish-
ment of the Bunerwals. In the report then published reasons were set
forth for the identification of Panjkotai with the site of the famous
Mahawana monastery described by the Chinese pilgrims, of Gumbatai
(Tursak) with the Mosu monastery and shrine, and of Girarai with the
shrine commemorating Buddha's ransoming of a dove, also a place
of pilgrimage.

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THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908.
OXFORD, AT THE CL..."