04 Notes on some of the Temples of Kashmir. [No. 2, 



standing seem to Lave been injured otherwise than by the wear of 

 time and the elements ; but from these causes, many of them have 

 now lost all trace of fluting. Each pillar of the peristyle is 10 feet 

 in height and 13 inches in diameter, with an intercolumniation of 7-f 

 feet. Immediately behind each pillar there is a square pilaster ^ 

 engaged, of the same height as, and with mouldings similar to those 

 of, the square corner pillars. The pilasters are 9J inches distant from 

 tbe pillars. Between every pair of pillars there is a chambered recess 

 7 T S 2- feet by 4 feet, with a trefoil-headed arch covered by a pedi- 

 ment, (which pediment) is supported on small pilasters, or rather 

 upon half* engaged pillars, as at Avantiswami. The general style of 

 tbe pillars is similar to that of the Marttand colonnade ; but it is 

 impossible to say whether the pedimental pilasters of the intervening 

 recesses were ornamented or not. The trefoiled heads of the recesses 

 are joined to the side mouldings of the openings by short horizontal 

 returnsf ( as a * Avantiswami). Each pillar is connected with its 

 pilaster and with the main wall by a transverse stone beam, which, 

 being broader at top than at bottom, bears the appearance of an upper 

 capital to the pillar.J " The greatest and most characteristic distinc- 

 tion," therefore, as General Cunningham says, " between the Arian 

 and Classic orders, lies in the disposition of the architrave. In the 

 latter it lies immediately over the line of pillai\s, whilst in the former 

 it is placed over the transverse beams." Nearly all of this entablature 

 still exists, but the building has been so much injured by the weather, 

 that its character can only be conjectured. It seems to have been 

 much the same as the upper part of that given in No. 2, plate VIII. of 

 General Cunningham's Essay. The upper part of the roof of the 

 quadrangle has entirely disappeared, but there can be little doubt that 

 it was triangular in section. 



The outer walls of the quadrangle are ornamented by fine deep 

 horizontal bands, § the intervals being occupied by rectangular figures 

 18 inches high, 13 inches wide, and 4 T 'a feet apart, the whole being 

 surmounted by an entablature of the same design as that of the 

 peristyle. The base of the wall is buried deep in accumulated earth 



* See Cunningham, plate XVIII. 



+ See Cunningham, plate XVIII, and ante Plate IX. p. 92. 

 % See Photograph, (of Marttand colonnade), No. XXIV. 

 § See Photograph, No. Ill 



