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divided into triangular-headed niches which contain single seated figures ; 

 and at each end there is a small pilaster for the support of the upper 

 member or cornice. This last, which has a projection equal to its 

 height, is divided into several small mouldings, the uppermost being 

 two bold ovolos. See plates VIII. and XV. 



5. — The third specimen from Marttand belongs to the interior of 

 the outer chamber, which may perhaps be of somewhat later date than 

 the larger and plainer building. It is represented in Plates VIII. and XVI. 

 In this specimen the frieze has been considerably enlarged, and the lower 

 member is reduced to a mere band, only 9 inches in height and per- 

 fectly plain. The frieze which is no less than 4 feet in height is divid- 

 ed by pilasters into several spaces, each^of which contains a niche with 

 a trefoiled head resting upon small pilasters, which are themselves sup- 

 ported by panelled pedestals. Each niche is occupied by a seated 

 human figure. The cornice, which is 1^ foot in height, consists of two 

 members, of which the upper one is an ovolo of 6 inches, decorated with 

 square-topped leaves ; and the lower one is a straight face of 1 foot 

 divided into triangular-headed niches. This is the richest as well as 

 the most elegant of all the Kashmirian entablatures. And yet its lead- 

 ing feature has been altogether mistaken by Vigne, who has represented 

 the figures enshrined in the niches as a row of four-leaved flowers.* 

 Unfortunately he selected for his sketch that side of the building which 

 was most injured. He seems also to have been contented with giving 

 the general forms and outlines of the masses, and thus to have lost all 

 those numerous peculiarities of detail which characterize the different 

 parts of one style of architecture from another. 



6. — The next entablature I found upon a single stone which is now 

 used as a flank wall to the entrance of the tomb of Zein-ul-ab-ud-din's 

 mother. It is probably of about the same age as those of Marttand. 



Like them it has its frieze divided by pilasters, and its cornice is the 

 same as that of the Marttand interior. The decorations of the intervals 

 between the pilasters are however quite different, although of the same 

 style. On a small scale they resemble very closely those of the walls 

 of the quadrangle, but without the peristyle. Like them they have 

 the spaces between the pilasters occupied by trefoil-headed recesses ; 

 but they differ in the want of covering pediments. There is one thin 

 * See View, vol. 1— p. 390. 



