1866.] Notes on some of the Temples of Kashmir. 99 



the water line, but much injured. Round the tank there are the 

 foundations of walls,* which seem to have formed a square of 100 feet. 



There is an ancient looking lingam 4^- feet high, \\ feet in diameter, 

 with 8 flat faces, of dark limestone, standing in the water near the 

 springs which supply the tank. It probably once stood in the centre 

 of the temple, like that at the Takht. 



The round head of the doorway outside has a sort of keystone 

 (Plate XIV.), being a projection from the lower face of a stone of the 

 course next above, as in the entrance to the temple at Marttand,f 

 and other Kashmirian arches. 



The smaller of the Lidar temples stands a little above and behind 

 (i. e. to the north of) the first. Its ground plan is a square of 10£ feet. 

 It has only one doorway, viz., to the west. All the walls have corner 

 pilasters 15 inches thick. 



The doorway has a square top covered by a pediment, which rests 

 upon the jambs of the door, the tympanum being occupied by the 

 trefoiled ornament. The trefoil contains a niche which once held 

 a figure. This pediment is covered by another, having a trefoiled 

 tympanum. The trefoiled arch rests, as usual, upon small pilasters 

 on each side of the door, but the pediment is supported upon bold 

 square pillars, which are attached to the building by walls of less 

 breadth and 8 inches long. The temple in front is a plain copy of 

 that at Pandrethan,i or perhaps the original from which it was taken. 

 The capitals of the corner pilasters are ornamented with two animals 

 (I think Bulls) standing back to back ; and those of the square 

 pillars, supporting the principal pediment, are decorated with a bold 

 flowered ornament. The roof of the building is pyramidal, but its 

 outer facing of stone has disappeared. The walls are 2 r * T feet thick. 

 The basement is buried. The interior forms a square of 6 feet, the 

 walls being 7 feet high and plain. 



The ceiling is formed of 9 blocks, four of which rest over the 

 angles of the walls. The same process is again repeated with an 

 upper course of four stones, by Avhich the opening is still further 

 nan-owed to a square of 2^ feet ; and lastly, the opening is closed by 



* See Cunningham, p. 288, para. 11. 

 f See Photograph, No. XXIII. 

 % See Photograph, No. V. 



