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very massive, but hollow. The basement of the temple is like that 

 of Bhaniyar,* but a good deal of it is concealed by earth and jungle. 



The steps of the temple are about 19| feet from those of the 

 gateway, but the latter are covered With earth and fragments of stone. 



The exterior face of the surrounding wall has been ornamented 

 like that at Bhaniyar, f and there were two recesses in the corners of 

 the front wall, like those at Marttand and Bhaniyar. The colonnade 

 of the interior has entirely disappeared, if any ever existed. I found 

 no fragments of small columns, like those of the Bhaniyar peristyle ; 

 but the quadrangle is so filled up with earth, fragments of stone, 

 trees and jungle, that whole pillars may be concealed from view. 

 I think there was a peristyle ; because behind the temple I found 

 part of a basement, like that on which the columns of the peristyle 

 stand at Bhaniyar. J 



The gateway is built on the same plan as that at Bhaniyar, § and 

 is 23 J feet wide. It is divided into two compartments, each 17 feet 

 by 5£ feet. The short side walls of each compartment are decorated 

 with two trefoil headed niches, one above the other, with pyramidal 

 pediments. The upper part of the gateway has disappeared, but 

 fragments of the four large fluted columns which supported the 

 architrave, are lying about in the neighbourhood, and also the capital 

 of one of these columns, elaborately carved with small figures and 

 flowered ornaments. Nearly the whole of the outer wall of the 

 quadrangle is still standing, but its character is concealed, in most 

 parts, by the earth which on three sides is up to the top of the wall. 

 The whole of the ruins are so buried in jungle that I passed along 

 the road, on my way to Kashmir, without noticing them at all. The 

 material is black stone (I think limestone), streaked with veins of 

 white marble. 



The situation is wild, like that of the Bhaniyar temple, the hill 

 rising to a great height immediately behind the ruin. 



Manus Bal. 

 At the S. E. corner of the lake of Manus Bal, there is a small 

 temple, of which the roof only was above the water on the 9th of 



* See Photograph, No. I. $ See Photograph, No. II. 



t See Photograph, No. III. § See Photograph, No. III. 



