92 Notes on some of the temples of Kashmir. [No. ^ 



The doorways are surmounted by trefoiled arches, 23 feet high ; 

 and the latter are covered by pyramidal pediments, resting on in- 

 dependent pilasters. Within the large trefoiled arches, there are 

 smaller pyramidal pediments, of which the tympanum is occupied 

 with the trefoiled decoration, like that at Bhaumajo,* resting on the 

 architrave covering the pilasters of the doorway. 



The pilasters at the corners of the building sustain the entablature, 

 and give a look of strength and solidity to the walls, which was 

 absolutely required for the vast and massive roof. 



In the interior the walls are plain, except that (as at Narayan 

 Thalf) a sort of string-course 'projects all round, about 12f feet from 

 the floor. It is about a foot high, flat above, and rounded below. 



Over the string-course and resting on it, there is, on each side, a 

 semicircular headed recess, about 8 feet high, 2 feet wide, "and 1J feet 

 deep. Only the one at the back of the building, that is, towards the 

 S. S. E., is pierced for a window, the opening being rectangular, and 

 about 2 feet high by 1 foot in width. The roof is hollowed out 

 into a hemispherical dome, of Which the centre is decorated with an 

 expanded lotus flower, as in the PayachJ temple. The spandrels of 

 the dome are too much injured to show any trace of figures, if any 

 ever existed ; but the dome looks as if it were a modern restoration, 

 and the whole is overlaid with thick whitewash, concealing the 

 material of which it is constructed. There were, however, no figures 

 in any other part of the building, except the tympanum of each 

 smaller pediment over the architraves of the doorways ; and there the 

 remains of heads (for such I took one of them to be) are now so much 

 worn away, that it is impossible to say exactly what they represented. 

 The colonnade had no such ornaments. § (Plate XX.) 



The basement of the temple is very fine. It is divided into two 

 portions, each having the same style of moulding as that of the 

 Bhaumajo|| basement ; but they differ from it in being further pro- 

 jected beyond the face of the wall. 



The lower portion is 47 feet square and 5f feet high ; and the 

 upper portion 34J feet square and 6 feet high, with a projection of 4 

 feet. Each division of the basement has a massive filleted torus as 



* See Cunningham, plate X. 

 t See below. § See photoglyph, No. II. 



j See Cunningham, plate XI. || See Cunningham, plate VIII. 



