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style. The gateway shows likewise an advance generally in the art of 

 architecture ; the lower pillars have subordinate capitals and bases 

 formed of Vases filled with flowers, curving over the sides, and the shafts 

 are made octagonal and are further adorned by bells suspended by 

 ropes. The upper columns have each the aid of four " caryatid" wo- 

 men at the sides, and of four lions rampant at the corners, in uphold- 

 ing the architrave, as at Satcheh ; — and further, as there, the ends of 

 the architraves support couchant lions, between which there is also 

 placed a central ornament. The upper portion however of the rectan- 

 gular doorway or opening has been formed into a pointed arch of a more 

 or less compound form, by the insertion of curved stones, which do not 

 enter into the construction — that is, the arch is false, as are the archways 

 of the fronts of Mahometan mosques, at least in design, and it would 

 indeed almost seem as if the pointed arch of Mussulman architecture ori- 

 ginated in an adaptation of the existing styles of the time of the Moghul 

 invasions. The accompanying sketch (PI. XXVI. fig. 2,) gives a tole- 

 rably accurate representation of the entrance, but the archway has been 

 restored by guess, as fragments only of the curved stones are to be 

 found. It has however been restored according to an existing example 

 at Ghearispoor, which is prima facie architecturally Buddhist, and the 

 re-entering angles of the double curve seem further to afford room for 

 the projecting forelimbs of the lions. The immediate entrance of the 

 temple seems only to deserve remark, as being composed of the same 

 description of pillar upon pillar as in the terrace gateway, the lower 

 pillars having however capitals of elephants' heads, and as having 

 miniature stone screens on either side, which appear to be modifications 

 of the stone railing of the Buddhist " Tope" at Satcheh. At the 

 beautiful temple of Mahadeo at Oodehpoor, previously described, there 

 are similar lateral screens. 



The detached fanes of the Gurruhnurh temple. — These shrines seem 

 to have been formed to contain one image only, with a small pillared 

 portico in front. Their external dimensions are about 12 feet by 9 in 

 base, and 10 in height, excepting that to the rear, which may have been 

 of two stories. They are flat-roofed. The door-posts are elaborately 

 carved agreeably to the custom of the present day in many parts of 

 India. These fanes are mostly ruinous, and the images have been 

 broken or removed. In one the idol seems to have been Ganesh, and 

 in another there is a rectangular pedestal so formed as to allow the 



