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west and east, and was divided into distinct portions, forming an inner 

 and an outer portico, by a cross wall with a doorway in the centre, 

 which was no doubt closed with a wooden door. On each flank of the 

 gateway, the pediment was supported upon massive fluted pillars, 1 7\ 

 feet in height, or eight feet higher than those of the quadrangle. One 

 of these is still standing to the south of the entrance ; and the style of 

 architrave and entablature which connected these pillars with the gate- 

 way, may be seen in the view of the ruined temple of Avantiswami, repre- 

 sented in Plate XIX. I suspect also that the front and back pediments 

 of the gateway were supported upon similar large pillars : but it is pos- 

 sible that the square foundations, which I observed in front, may have 

 been only the remains of the wing-walls of a flight of steps. The roof 

 was, no doubt, pyramidal ; for a portion of the sloping mouldings of its 

 pediment was still to be seen on one side, and I also observed the same 

 at the Avantiswami temple. 



25. — It is probable that each corner of the quadrangle must have been 

 covered by a pyramidal roof supported upon large pillars, for there is a 

 broken column yet standing at the S. W. corner, and the bases of three 

 others are still to be traced close to it. It was this broken column that 

 puzzled Vigne so much, as he appears to have taken it for an isolated 

 pillar, which' once bore an inscription ; but as the pillar is fluted this 

 conjecture must be abandoned. In Plate XIV. will be seen the roofs of 

 two of these corner buildings, according to my ideas of their size and of 

 their connexion with the adjoining roof of the quadrangle. On the out- 

 side also at the S. W. angle, I found one of the stones of the decorated 

 entablature, 3^ feet in height, (see Plate VIII. Fig. I. Marttand,) which 

 could only have belonged to such a lofty building at the corner as I 

 have supposed. The decoration of this entablature is similar to that of 

 the interior of the temple, but considerably plainer. This was, perhaps, 

 designed as being more suitable to the exterior which is throughout less 

 highly ornamented. 



26. — In the middle of each of the long sides of the colonnade there 

 is a pair of large fluted pillars, 13 feet in height and 8f feet apart, 

 somewhat advanced beyond the line of the peristyle. On the northern 

 pair of columns, the transverse architraves, connecting them with the 

 wall of the peristyle, are still standing. I suppose that these pillars 

 carried an entablature, 3| feet in height, of the same description as 



