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the different pieces now occupy with regard to each other. Vigne calls the 

 distance from the principal fragment No. 4, to the base piece No. 5, about 

 " half a mile." But he is certainly wrong ; for the whole distance between 

 the hill upon which No. 4 fragment is lying, and the Pandrethan temple, 

 is somewhat less than 700 yards, and the base piece No. 5 stands about 

 halfway between them. 



6. — My belief is that the pillar originally stood in its present position 

 as shown in the view in Plate VII. ; and that it was cut out of the solid 

 rock by the quarrying away of the hill on all sides. The total height 

 must have been fully 36 feet ; for I have not added a single piece to the 

 remaining fragments, excepting only the necessary restoration of the 

 upper parts of the heads. The style of long-plaited tresses appears to 

 be similar to that which was usually given by the Greeks to their caryatid 

 figures ; a specimen of which from Athens is shown in Plate VII. 



7. — Vigne* has hazarded a conjecture that the large fragment No. 4 

 is the capital of a great Garuda pillar, which was erected at Parihasa- 

 pura ; and that it was removed to its present position perhaps by Sankara 

 Varmma. But as it has already been shown that the largest stones 

 which the Kashmirian architects were in the habit of using in the tem- 

 ples do not weigh more than 17 tons, it is scarcely possible that this 

 vast fragment, which contains 375 cubic feet and weighs upwards of 

 28 tons, would have been selected for removal from Parihasapura to 

 Pandrethan, a distance of 20 miles. I have already stated my belief 

 that this gigantic lingam was cut out of the solid rock in the very spot 

 where it now lies prostrate. Vigne mentions the " flat surface" which 

 has been cut in the rock close to it ; but he does not notice the exis" 

 tence of a large rough square plinth upwards of seven feet across, which 

 is also hewn out of the solid rock in the middle of this platform, and 

 on which I believe that the pillar formerly stood. 



8. — If I am correct in my restoration of these various fragments into 

 one gigantic lingam, the period of its erection is, I think, ascertained 

 beyond all doubt in the following verse of the Raja Tarangini, B. 3 — 

 v. 99 :— 



WTJ xrTT^TfeST^ 3[f?reT fafa^T WRTII 

 which is thus rendered by Troyer : 



* Kashmir, vol. 2, p. 37. 



