Nagari or Madhyamika Nagari is situated near Chittor. It remained prosperous for a pretty long time. The Mahabaharata has several references pertaining to this place. Nagari is eight miles north of Chittaurgarh . The place was first visited in 1872 CE by A.C.L. Carlleyle , Assistant to Sir Alexander Cunningham, and his account of its antiquities is published in the 'Archaeological Suvey of India Reports, Vol. VI, pp.196-226.' Kavi Raj Shyamal Das, an officer of high rank and fame in the court of Udaipur, and perhaps the most celebrated antiquarian and historian of his time in Rajputana, visited Nagari soon after and published an article entitled Antiquities at Nagai, in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (Vol. LVI,Pt. I p. 74 ff.) It is a parallelogram in plan (93.6 x 45.90 m) and is made of huge cut blocks of stone. The monument is popularly known as Hathi-ka-Bara after the legend that the Emperor Akbar used it as his elephant stable, during his expedition against Chittaurgarh. A Brahmi inscription engraved on a stone block fixed in the north-east corner of the wall and assignable to the second century BCE speaks of the erection of 'pujasila-prakara by Sarvatata Gajayana, son of a lady of the Parasara gotra for the gods Sankarshana and Vasudeva'. Pujasila prakara referred to, in the inscription means a stone enclosure around an object of worship.
