10 Description of the Buddhist Ruins at Bahariya Kund. [No. 1, 



15 feet long by 10 wide, while the eastern is only 12 feet by 10. 

 The inner part of the temple is 18 feet square. Round the whole of 

 the exterior of the temple, above the capitals of the columns, and sup- 

 ported by their external limb, runs an eave-stone nearly 3 feet in 

 width, and, as at the Atallah, Juma Musjid, Pan Dareba at Juanpore, 

 this eaves-stone has been made to imitate wood, thus confirming 

 Fergusson when writing about this class of structures. 



Each column is 8J feet in height, of which the quadrilateral shaft 

 between the capital and the plinth is 4|- feet. The capital is in the 

 form of a cross, each limb consisting of two portions, the lower being 

 bell-shaped with an ornament in the corners. The columns in the 

 temple proper stand two or four together, and the abacus or square 

 stone upon them, between the capital and architrave, is 13 inches deep, 

 and is beautifully carved. The architrave has a rich double band 

 sculptured upon it, which passes all round the temple including the 

 porticos. Above this is a flat stone, and above it again a row of 

 niches which are probably of Mohammedan origin. 



Viewing the temple from the outside, a practised eye soon distin- 

 guishes between the ancient portion and that added by the Moham- 

 medans. Above the portico, all below the octagonal breastwork is 

 undoubtedly of Buddhist workmanship, and the remainder of Moham- 

 medan ; but the Mohammedans, there is reason to suppose, availed 

 themselves of old materials. At the termination of the breastwork at 

 each corner, rests a small kalas, about two-thirds of the circular disk 

 of which is exposed, the remainder being inserted into the wall. 

 Although so many ages have elapsed since this temple was erected, 

 and although it has been exposed to the alternate ruthlessness of 

 Hindu and Mohammedan fanaticism, nevertheless with such wonder- 

 ful skill have its proportions been designed and its blocks of stone 

 been joined together — yet without cement of any kind — that at the 

 present moment, in spite of its aspect of hoary antiquity, it seems 

 almost if not quite as durable as on the day on which it was finished • 

 and it is unquestionable that if it be not barbarously damaged by 

 uncivilized hands, it will continue to stand for centuries to come. 

 The simplicity combined with the great strength of its parts, and the 

 symmetrical arrangement of the whole, give to the building, notwith- 

 standing the general scantiness of its ornamentation, an appearance which 



