306 On the Ruins at Putharec. [April, 



to the Raja's reign, but the style of architecture seems to point to the 

 early centuries of the Christian era. 



The place is situated in the midst of isolated groups of low sandstone 

 hills, and the locality includes two good sized reservoirs formed mainly 

 by damming up the outlets of rainy season streams. The most im- 

 portant series of remains is to be found along the banks of the larger 

 reservoir, while the present town and the smaller lake are distinguished 

 by a single pillar and a solitary temple. Intermediately there are 

 ruins of fanes of different kinds, with the fragments of various figures 

 scattered about ; and one of the isolated hills seems also to have been 

 occupied by devotees, or by some of the members of the religious estab- 

 lishments of the place. 



The Jain Temple on the larger reservoir. — On the western banks 

 of the larger reservoir there is situated a Jain temple, perhaps compara- 

 tively modern. It forms a hollow quadrangle with sides of probably 

 120 feet in length, but its only peculiarity seems to be that the ranges 

 of cloisters are surmounted by alternate pyramidal spires of the usual 

 Indian kind, and domes of the common Mahometan outline. The 

 sculptured figures are inferior, and the architecture of the building rude 

 in the extreme. 



The Brahmanical Temples on the larger reservoir. — On the northern 

 bank of the larger reservoir there are several Brahmanical temples, two 

 of which deserve notice. One, a simple shrine, Buddhist in shape, con- 

 tains an elaborately sculptured representation of Vishnu as the Boar. 

 The statue is about \\ feet high, it is covered with figures disposed in 

 ranks ; it lias a diminutive woman hanging by the tusk of the God, and 

 the remains of a serpent may be traced on the ground on which it is 

 standing. It evidently illustrates the same religious sentiment, or train 

 of ideas, as the corresponding figures at Ehrin and Oodehghir, describ- 

 ed in my previous paper, (Journal Asiatic Society of Bengal, Aug. 1847, 

 pp. 755 and 760.) The other temple is ruinous, but one chamber still 

 contains detached figures showing Vishnu in the several forms in which 

 he is supposed to have become successively manifest. During the 

 hurried inspection which I made of these figures I noticed nothing 

 differing materially from other types, and I neither saw nor could hear 

 of any inscriptions. Both temples however appear to have been of the 

 flat roofed Buddhist type, and not pyramidal. 



