10 ~— Description of the Buddhist Ruins at Bakariya Kund. [No. 1, 
15 feet long by 10 wide, while the eastern is only 12 feet by 10. 
The inner part of the temple is 18 feet square. Round the whole of 
the exterior of the temple, above the capitals of the columns, and sup- 
ported by their external limb, runs an eave-stone nearly 3 feet in 
width, and, as at the Atallah, Juma Musjid, Pan Dareba at Juanpore, 
this eaves-stone has been made to imitate wood, thus confirming 
Fergusson when writing about this class of structures. 
Each column is 84 feet in height, of which the quadrilateral shaft 
between the capital and the plinth is 44 feet. The capital is in the 
form of a cross, each limb consisting of two portions, the lower being 
bell-shaped with an ornament in the corners. The columns in the 
temple proper stand two or four together, and the abacus or square 
stone upon them, between the capital and architrave, is 13 inches deep, 
and is beautifully carved. The architrave has a rich double band 
sculptured upon it, which passes all round the temple including the 
porticos. Above this is a flat stone, and above it again a row of 
niches which are probably of Mohammedan origin. 
Viewing the temple from the outside, a practised eye soon distin- 
guishes between the ancient portion and that added by the Moham- 
medans. Above the portico, all below the octagonal breastwork is 
undoubtedly of Buddhist workmanship, and the remainder of Moham- 
medan ; but the Mohammedans, there is reason to suppose, availed 
themselves of old materials. At the termination of the breastwork at 
each corner, rests a small kalas, about two-thirds of the circular disk 
of which is exposed, the remainder being inserted into the wall. 
Although so many ages have elapsed since this temple was erected, 
and although it has been exposed to the alternate ruthlessness of 
Hindu and Mohammedan fanaticism, nevertheless with such wonder- 
ful skill have its proportions been designed and its blocks of stone 
been joined together—yet without cement of any kind—that at the 
present moment, in spite of its aspect of hoary antiquity, it seems 
almost if not quite as durable as on the day on which it was finished ; 
and it is unquestionable that if it be not barbarously damaged by 
uncivilized hands, it will continue to stand for centuries to come. 
The simplicity combined with the great strength of its parts, and the 
symmetrical arrangement of the whole, give to the building, notwith- 
standing the general scantiness of its ornamentation, an appearance which 
