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pediment was undoubtedly used for the porches of Marttand, but only 

 the lower portions of the horizontal mouldings are now remaining. 



2. — Pravareswara Symbol at Pdndrethan. 



1. — The gigantic fragments which in plate VII. I have joined together 

 into one lofty pillar, have attracted the notice of most European tra- 

 vellers. The largest piece, marked No. I, in my Plate, is thus described 

 by Moorcroft* — " One large stone of a conical shape had the appear- 

 ance of a liny am ; but the peasants said it was a mark for the ball 

 used in playing chauydn, employed by a race of giants who formerly 

 dwelt there." Vigne also calls it a liny am, which it undoubtedly is, as 

 may be seen by a reference to Plate VII. This fragment is 16^ feet in 

 height, and 6 feet 10 inches in diameter ; the upper part being a sphe- 

 roidal topped cylinder, and the lower portion a poligon of sixteen sides. 

 There is also another large linyam 6 feet in height, but only 6 feet in 

 diameter, and with no more than eight sides. I presume therefore that 

 it was most probably not connected with the larger pillar. 



2. — The fragment marked No. 4, in my Plate, is by far the most 

 interesting of these remains. Moorcroft, continuing his former account, 

 thus describes it : — " Another was pointed out as the goal, but proved 

 to be the upper part and capital of a huge polygonal pillar, the shaft 

 of which was seven yards in circumference. Traces of figures on its 

 upper part were distinctly perceptible." Vignef calls it the " capital 

 and five feet of the shaft of an enormous limestone pillar." " The 

 plinth," he adds, "is much damaged, but enough is left to show that it 

 was composed (at least I thought so) of four gigantic female busts." The 

 upper part is undoubtedly composed of four busts, or rather half-length 

 figures, but they are most unequivocally males, and not females. The 

 fragment is now lying upon its side on the top of a low flat spur which 

 puts out into the plain, opposite the village of Lajan, between Pandre- 

 than and Panthasok, and at rather less than half a mile from the Pan- 

 drethan temple. A view of its situation is given, at the top of Plate 

 VII. where it is seen lying to the left of the restored pillar. This frag- 

 ment is also a polygon of sixteen sides, with a diameter of 6 feet 10 

 inches. Vignef states its thickness at " about 5 feet ;" but the more 

 * Travels, v. 2.— p. 241. 

 f Kashmir, v. 2— p. 36. 



