TO ËXAMINE THE REMAINS, &C. 33 



Canara and the West Piovlnces on the Toom- 

 bodra. 



In these interestine; mins are seen on a 2:radu- 

 ated order of basement^ stones^ pilast^rs^ niches, 

 statues and apertnres, shaded and obsciired by 

 thick branches and foliage, vvhich finallj crown 

 the top, and leave the inquisitor at a loss to de- 

 termine the ultiniate crowning of the original 

 structure. 



We found it, like the others^ surrounded bj a 

 ditch and mound close to the walls ; which I 

 rather notice as I am of opinion that this ditch 

 has been dug for the purpose of destrojing the 

 edifice ; not bj undermining, the most obvious 

 way, but from the fanatic motive of defacing 

 and destroying the sculpture by lire, which has 

 been evidently applied to all. Accordingly we 

 find the lower part of the ordonance or base- 

 ment defaeed, cracked and in many places ruin* 

 ed ; and this operation here has particularly af- 

 fected the two projecting parts on the East and 

 West, inso much that nearly the wholehasfallen 

 down and exhibits the truer scction of the 

 whole wall and vault above, from top to bottom 

 of their outward aisles, by which it appears that 

 the roof within was carried up by stages of 



