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tion," says he, " the palace of the Pandus is a precious specimen of 

 ancient art, and deserves a foremost place amongst the remains of 

 Hindu antiquity." 



VI. — Temple at Pdmpur. 



1. — At Pampur on the right bank of the Behat, six miles to the S. E. 

 of the capital, and midway between it and Avantipura, are the remains 

 of a Hindu temple, of which the basement and a few feet of the super- 

 structure are still standing. To the westward at 1 00 feet is a beautiful 

 fluted column, quite perfect, and a portion of a second fluted pillar of 

 large dimensions, with a square-headed doorway behind them, which now 

 forms the entrance to a Mahomedan tomb. An elevation and section of 

 the perfect pillar is given in Plate VI. 



2. — The temple was a square of 22 feet, with four porches, somewhat 

 advanced beyond the main walls of the building. Its height, following 

 the Kashmirian proportion, must have been about 44 feet. It was no 

 doubt also surrounded by a colonnade of fluted pillars, with the inter- 

 vening recesses, of which the smaller column and doorway mentioned 

 above are perfect specimens. The existence of a larger column likewise 

 shows that there were porches in the middle of each of the long sides of 

 the quadrangle. But more than this cannot now be determined, except- 

 ing, perhaps, the name and date of the erection of the temple, which are 

 recorded in the following verse of the Raja Tarangini. B. 4 — v. 694. 



*TW *TWTEIT# Ufa-' W*< fP»|T I i 



" Padma (the maternal uncle of Vrihaspati) built Padmapura, and a 

 Padmaswami." 



Now as I could not discover any other ruins excepting those above 

 described, it may be presumed, that they are the remains of the temple 

 of Padmaswami, which was built during the reign of Vrihaspati, be- 

 tween A. D. 804 and 816. The modern name of Pdmpur is the Kash- 

 mirian corruption of the Sanskrit Padmapura TRWT > which means 



" Padma's town," and has not even the most distant allusion either to 

 the lotus, or to the beauty of its women — as suggested by Vigne.* 



* Kashmir, v. 2— p. 31 



