98 Notes on some of the Temples of Kashmir. [No. 2, 



ornament. The apex of the pediment reaches to the top of the cornice, 

 which runs round the top of the walls on the outside. The roof is 

 entirely gone. 



The interior is a circle, the diameter of which diminishes from the 

 ground upwards. Four feet from the floor it is lT/g- feet. There 

 is a cornice 20 inches high, 9 T V feet above the floor. Its mouldings 

 are the same as those of the lowest course of the cefling of the small 

 temple,* viz. three fillets, like those of the Payach dome,f but that 

 the edge of the middle one is round instead of square. 



The diameter of the circle formed by the projecting edge of the 

 cornice is 15 feet. The thickness of the wall at the doorway is 3| 

 feet. The wall on the inside shows signs of fire having been used, 

 perhaps to destroy the roof, which may have been of wood. The top 

 of the doorway inside is formed by the underside of the course from 

 which the cornice of the interior is projected. 



There is a drain on the south side, as at Payach, for carrying off 

 the water used in the services of the temple. The height of the 

 wall outside from the top of the cornice is 10J feet. The corner 

 pilasters stand on a basement 2 T 5 2 feet high, and are 6J inches pro- 

 jected beyond the face of the wall (See Plate XIV.) This basement is 

 carried all round the building, except where it is broken by the door- 

 way ; the bottom of the basement being on a level with that of the 

 doorway. 



The uppermost course of the basement is nearly flush with the 

 corner pilasters, but the next two courses project 5 J inches beyond 

 the uppermost one. 



The basement of the temple stands on a platform 48 feet square, 

 faced with stone walls, forming a sort of lower basement, as at 

 Bhaniyar.J 



The whole stands in the middle of a tank of very clear water' 

 which issues from two springs in the N. E. corner. The tank is 

 now 3 feet deep, but I could not ascertain whether there was a stone 

 bottom below the accumulated mud. The tank has been a square of 

 about 70 feet, with stone walls supporting the bank, now 2 feet above 



* See below, p. 100. 



f See Cunningham, Plate XI. and page 258, para. 10. 

 . % See Photograph, No. I, and ante, p. 92. 



