1866.] Notes on some of the Temples of Kashmir. 115 



interior is a square of about 11 feet. The temple seems to have stood 

 in a tank, and to have had an enclosing wall. Immediately behind 

 is the steep hill side, covered with fine spreading cedars. 



Temples at Pathan Sugandheswara.* 



The inner chamber of this, the smaller of the two Pathan temples, 

 is, as Cunningham says, " quite plain," except that in the west wall 

 there are four small niches in a line, 5J feet from the floor, two with 

 trefoiled heads and two square-headed. To the right of the gateway 

 ruins there is a fragment of a fluted column, one foot in diameter, like 

 those of the Avantiswami peristyle, and, a little further to the front, 

 a fragment of a larger fluted column (having 20 flutes) If feet in diameter. 



. Down each flute there is a flat band, one inch 



fc dvn wide, slightly projected. Near the latter frag- 

 lit-n/ me nt there are pieces of two trefoil-headed 



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f0 ■ arches, and the capitals (with parts of the 

 shafts) of two of the colonnade pilasters. 

 There is also, on the same spot, the base (22 

 22in inches square) of a small column, cut on three 



sides only. 



Sankara G-aureswara. 



Nearly opposite this, the larger of the two Pathan temples, on the 

 left hand side of the road in a bagh of cherry trees, there is a fragment 

 of a small fluted columnf (having 16 flutes), one foot in diameter, 

 similar to that of the Pampur peristyle. The fragment measures about 

 3 feet in length, and is standing up out of the ground, marking the 

 site of a Mahomeclan grave. And in a field to the east of the temple, there 

 is another fragment of the same or a similar pillar. In the village of 

 Pathan, I found the base of a small column like that described near 

 Sugandheswara, and another of a larger column. In and about the 

 village, there are numberless huge stones, squared and otherwise carved, 

 which probably belonged to the enclosure of one or both of the temples. 

 To the east of the entrance porch of the larger temple, at 90 feet 

 distance, there is the foundation of a wall of squared stones, and I 

 thought I could trace the foundation of a gateway. 



* See Cunningham, page 281. f See Cunningham, page 283. 



