1866.] 



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The stones of the interior of the dome diminish in size, from about 

 1 J feet long and 6 inches wide in the lower courses, to squares of about 

 six inches near the centre. The foundation of the dome is formed of 

 large blocks of stone, about 2 feet high, decorated with three straight 

 edged fillets as at Payach,* the two upper ones broad and projecting 

 each beyond that immediately below it, and the lowest narrowest. 

 The spandrels of the dome are plain and horizontal. 



Within a few yards of the principal temple, to the north, there are 

 the remains, more or less ruined, of five small temples, three to the 

 east (L), and two to the west (H and K). All but one of them are 

 built on the same general plan as the temple already described, but 

 have only one door each. The two to the west have their doors to 

 the east and south respectively. The doorway of the latter (II) is 

 like that of the temple A of the second group, described below. The 

 other three sides of H are decorated each with a miniature double- 

 roofed temple, but without an enclosing porch like those of A. It has a 

 water-spout on the north-west side. The other temple on the west(K) 

 has been a copy of the principal building, without the second doorway. 

 Of the other three small temples, (hat corresponding in position 

 to the one nearest the central building on the west, has its door to 

 the south east, and is built on the same plan as H. So has the next 

 one to it" (almost touching it) on its north-east side. Its Avails have 

 been plain on three sides, and there is a waterspout on the west. The 

 third of these temples, almost touching the first (on its north side), has 

 four doorways ; that on the east being larger than the others, with 



(I think) a flight of steps to the east. 

 (L). It has a stone water-spout 

 projecting on the N. W. W. side. 

 In the interior the walls are plain. 

 The ceiling (as in the Pandrethan 

 temple,f Plate XVIII.) is formed 



of 9 blocks, four of which rest over 

 the angles of the walls and reduce 

 the opening to a square. The same 

 process is again repeated with an 

 upper course of four stones, by which the opening is still further nar- 

 * See Cunningham, p. 258, para. 10. f See Cunningham, p. 288, para. 10. 



