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on the river side are still in their places. Immediately 

 inside the gateway, to the left, are the ruins of a small temple A, like 

 those of the first group. Its only entrance, a tref oiled arch covered 

 by a pediment resting on independent pilasters, looks to the N. E. 

 i. e. in the direction of the central building. Over the doorway 

 pediment, and resting on square pilasters, is another trefoiled arch, 

 occupying the tympanum of the porch pediment. The square pilasters 

 project 15 inches, and are attached to the building by short walls, as 

 at Pandrethan.* The other three walls are ornamented with similar 

 porches, projecting about 6 inches, and containing each the front of a 

 miniature temple with two roofs. The recesses once held linga.\ The 

 interior is blocked up with the debris of the roof. 



Between A and the principal temple, and a little to the north of 

 them, are the ruins of another temple (B), of which the basement 

 alone remains, amid a heap of huge stones, earth, and jungle. The 

 ground plan of this building was a square of about 18 feet with corner 

 pilasters 2f feet thick, and four porches projecting about 14 inches 

 beyond the pilasters. 



Close to the central and principal temple, at its N. W. corner, is a 

 huge cistern (like those at BhaniyarJ), cut out of a single block of 

 granite, 15 feet long, 7^ feet wide, and 3 feet high, with a projecting 

 spout on the W. S. W., one of the shorter sides. 



The central building here is much more injured than that of the 

 former group, and is buried half way up the porches on two sides. 

 It appears, however, to have been very much like the corresponding 

 temple of the first group, but it had only one entrance, viz. towards 

 the W. S. W. facing the gateway. 



The interior is a square of 17 feet. The lowest course of the dome, 

 consisting of 8 stones, each 22 inches high, has not the mouldings 

 which the other dome has in this place, but seems to have had one 

 narrow plain moulding at the edge, and above it there is a concave 

 course, about 18 inches high, with a moulding resembling the frieze 

 of entablature No. 2, (of Marttand), given by General Cunningham 

 on plate VIII accompanying his Essay. The entrance has the remains 

 of projecting walls§, like those of the large temple in the first group, 



* See Cunningham, plate XXI. f See Cunningham, p. 283, and plate No. XX. 

 % See ante, p. 97. § See ante, p. 102. 



