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



using the stone of its pyramidal roof, and probably of its enclosing 

 quadrangle, for the construction of bis walls of defence. Tbe ground 

 plan of the temple is a square of 4G§ feet. There were four porches, 

 each 27J- feet wide, with a projection 3 T V feet beyond the temple walls. 

 The only door was on the W. N. W. side, the other three porches con- 

 taining closed doorways, like those at Bhaniyar.* The doorways had 

 pyramidal pediments, the tympanum being occupied by the trefoil 

 ornament, and were supported on half engaged fluted columns, with 

 capitals decorated with the egg-shaped ornament. f The doorway 

 pediments were surmounted by those of the porches, with noble trefoiled 

 arches occupying the tympanum ; the principal pediments being sup- 

 ported on fine square pilasters, and the arches resting, as usual, on 

 half engaged square pillars of their own. The corner pilasters are 7J 

 feet thick, and 4J inches projected. The capitals of the square pilasters, 

 like the entablature of the exterior walls, were ornamented with small 

 trefoil-headed niches, containing naked human figures standing ; and 

 over them was a row of lotus flowers in small square panels. The 

 interior measures 29 feet across, and seems to have been octagonal, 

 the four principal sides measuring each 18-J- feet, and the other four 

 each 9 feet ; but the whole building is buried in earth and the debris 

 of the roof nearly up to the top of the doorways, and it is consequently 

 not possible to take all the measurements accurately. Some of the 

 stones (black limestone?) are very large, measuring 10 T 7 -g-feet in length 

 3£ feet in height, and 3^ feet in thickness. From the exterior face 

 of the porch to the back of the recess formed by the closed doorway is 

 8J feet. 



Tewan. 



About a mile to the left of the road beyond Bimbaga, at a village called 

 Tewan, near the foot of the hills, there are the ruins of a temple built 

 after the plan of the principal temples beyond Wangat, but of smaller 

 dimensions. It has only one door, viz. to the south ; but there are por- 

 ches, similar to that on the south, on the other three sides, containing 

 closed door-ways. The roof is entirely gone, and the walls look as if 

 they would very soon topple over. The .basement is buried. The 



* See photograph, No. I. 



t Sec Cunningham, plate VIII. fig. 6, 



