718 Notice on the A.itiqwties of Bhopdl. [Aug. 



have been a second column close to the first, as the segmental fragment 

 of one still protrudes two feet out of the ground. Adjoining the east- 

 ern entrance there is likewise a small pillar now standing with a base 

 one foot in diameter and a shaft 13 feet long, and it seems probable 

 that many similarly detached pillars formerly adorned the building. 

 The capital of the southern column is formed of four lions, but a fallen 

 capital on the northern side is of a kind which seems to have once 

 been so much in use as to have formed the characteristic of a style. 

 It consists of a bell-shaped stone, fluted, and surmounted by an 

 " abacus" so thick as to be almost cubical. The style of the capital 

 will however be best understood from the accompanying drawing. On 

 neither of the capitals do there appear any marks as if they had sus- 

 tained images of men or representations of the sun. They may 

 nevertheless have done so, as the cup-shaped top formed by the lions' 

 heads in one instance, and the broad basis furnished by the square 

 " abacus" in the other, would leave a heavy stone figure in little need 

 of support from tenons. On a pillar still existing in the same tract of 

 country and on the representations of others, men or animals or a 

 circle, i. e. the sun, surmount the capitals. 



In an architectural and perhaps in an antiquarian point of view the 

 most remarkable portions of the monuments are the stone railings or 

 inclosures, and the pillared gateways with triple architraves. The rail- 

 ling consists of stone uprights or columns, 2 feet by 1 foot 9 inches in 

 base and 8 feet 8 inches in height, and only an inch or so more than two 

 feet apart. A plain architrave, as wide or thick as the uprights, two feet 

 four inches deep, and slightly rounded at top surmounts the columns. 

 Between the columns again are three cross pieces likewise of stone, 

 two feet one inch or so in length, besides the supporting ends or tenons, 

 two feet four inches in depth, and 9 inches thick, but their section is 

 elliptical or doubly sigmental, that is the perpendicular axis is 2 feet 4 

 inches and the vertical 9 inches. Between each bar or cross-piece 

 there is a space of four inches only, so that the inclosure is almost in 

 effect a dead wall. The railing however must have been felt to be 

 characteristic or symbolical, and it occurs frequently as an ornament 

 among the sculptured reliefs. The abacus also of the capital of the 

 column at the northern entrance has been carved so as to represent 

 this species of inclosure. 



