310 On the Ruins at Pntharee. [April, 



with the world had been metamorphosed into stone and had become 

 the guardian of the fane of her own erection. It is not clear what myth 

 or what theogonic idea is represented by the group in question, espe- 

 cially when its importance with reference to the temple is considered. 

 In addition to the figures above described there may be seen lying on 

 the floor of the temple a small Lingam with a well proportioned female 

 head carved in relief on one side. No inscriptions could be seen or 

 heard of. 



General conclusions with reference to Gurrulmurh temple. — The 

 general impression left upon the mind by an examination of this temple, 

 is that while it is religiously a brahmanical edifice, it is architecturally 

 and sculpturally an adaptation from Buddhism, and serves to show how 

 old material forms are preserved amid mental changes and the revolu- 

 tions of sentiment. The plan of the Tope is upon the whole readily 

 traceable ; the hemisphere is indeed stretched into a pyramid, and the 

 four entrances with tutelary Buddhas are here represented by three 

 exterior niches containing figures of Ganesh, and by the one interior 

 image opposite the one entrance which every building must at least 

 have. The temple is surrounded, as at the Buddhist Satcheh (and as 

 in the purely Saivic Oodehpoor,) by other smaller fanes, and the whole 

 is inclosed by a wall with a regular entrance. In an artistic sense, the 

 superiority over Satcheh is greater in an architectural than in a sculp- 

 tural point of view. Its architecture is much inferior to Oodehpoor, but 

 both in a religious and artistic aspect it seems to stand halfway between 

 the " Tope" at Satcheh and the perfect temple at Oodehpoor, or to show 

 faith and skill dwelling upon old shapes while imbued with new ideas. 

 Bheem Seiis Gvj or Luth. — Near to the western edge of the smaller 

 lake stands the wand or pillar, now called of Bheem Sen. (PI. XXVI. fig. 

 3.) It is composed of a single block about 36 feet in height and 2| thick. 

 The shaft is square in section for a height of eight feet, and it then be- 

 comes circular. The capital consists of a grooved round disc surmounting 

 a plain square one, and it originally seems to have sustained a group of 

 figures, of which a portion only of one now remains. The capital is per- 

 haps a modification, and if so, one for the better, of the capitals in exist- 

 ence, at Ehrin and Satcheh, and the original shape of which, by the way, 

 seems accurately preserved in the pillar at Bettiah near Benares, and 

 in the remarkable columns still in existence near Caubul and Ghuznee. 

 On one side of the square portion of the shaft there is a long inscrip- 



