954 Notes, principally Geological, from [No. 130. 



ed ears, and peculiar contour, that characterize the Jaina saints : from 

 the hood of the Cobra extended like a canopy over his head, I judge 

 the image to be that of Purswanath. The features and other parts 

 have suffered mutilation. The interior of the place, fouled by bats and 

 other animals, is supported by massive stone pillars, generally square, 

 with tori : the ends of the architraves are carved into lion's heads, &c. 

 The whole is of a light red sandstone brought from Himallya, few coss 

 off. There is an inscription in the wall of the doorway; another slab 

 bearing an inscription in Hala Canara lies broken near the thresh- 

 old. The earth and rubbish have accumulated up to the knee of 

 some of the images. The range on which the temple stands, is a 

 bed of elevated jaspery rock with contorted laminae, and similar in 

 appearance to that forming the copper-mountain ridge of Bellary. Direc- 

 tion N. W., dip 60 to 70 N. E. 



From Sassenhal and Jumlapur to Nundapur, the road passes over 

 From Sassenhal to the tfle N. W. extremity of the Idlapur schistose 

 Tumbuddra. elevations, before noticed. From Jumlapur, 



where the chlorite slate is seen at the usual angle of elevation, the 

 ground rises for about a mile, when a narrow greenstone dyke is 

 crossed, running E. 10 S. About 40 yards farther, the main dyke is 

 traversed, running in an almost similar direction, which covers the 

 summit and descent of the elevation with globular and angular frag- 

 ments, almost as far as Nundapur, a distance of three miles. At the 

 base of the elevation on which this village is situated, the slate is seen 

 in the bed of the nullah, dipping at an angle of 60 N. 45 E., i. e. from 

 the dyke. The schists on the western side of the dyke, observed yes- 

 terday at Sassenhal, dip at an angle of 72 to the S. W., i. e. from the 

 dyke. The greenstone differs not from that usually seen in the Ceded 

 Districts, being crystalline or porphyritic near the centre, imbedding 

 crystals of a greenish felspar, and becoming more compact as it ap- 

 proaches the edges : amphibole and felspar intimately mixed, are its 

 chief constituents. Near its eastern flank these minerals separate, and 

 it passes into a sienite, which is exceedingly tough under the hammer : 

 the felspar crystals fast decomposing, form a compact paste. The 

 chlorite slate, in the immediate vicinity of these plutonic rocks, loses its 

 fine slaty character, becomes thick-bedded, compact, and of darker colour, 

 and is penetrated in every direction by contorted quartzose veins, the 



