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



The only entrance is to the S. S. W. The head of the doorway is 

 round, and has a few parallel and perfectly plain mouldings, which are 

 joined to the similar mouldings of the sides by short horizontal returns. 

 To the N. E. of the last, and a few feet only distant, are the ruins of 

 another small temple, the ground plan of which was a square of 6 J feet* 



The wall enclosing all of these buildings, has been plain and very 

 massive. Many of the stones are still in their places on the N. N. W. 

 side, some of them being 7 feet long, 22 inches high, and 22 inches 

 thick. The wall measures 161 feet by 118 feet, the longer sides 

 being towards the river and the hill respectively. On the former 

 side the wall forms a support to the platform on which the temples 

 stand ; and on the latter, a facing to the hill side, which has either 

 been cut away to form the quadrangle, or has subsequently come 

 down in a landslip, threatening to bury all the buildings in its descent 

 towards the river. Wherever the lower part of the wall remains and 

 is visible on the outside (as it is near the gateway), there is a string 

 course, like that at Bhaniyar.* 



Immediately beyond the enclosing wall, at its N. N. W. corner, is 

 a tank (T) of most delicious water, very cold and clear. The bottom of 

 the tank is considerably above the level of the quadrangle, which 

 might therefore have been kept flooded from the tank. The water 

 issues from the hill on the N. W. W. side of the tank, through the 

 stones of the wall, and was probably the cause of this site being 

 selected for all these buildings. Not only the temples, but the 

 neighbourhood is now forsaken by all human beings, and there is not 

 a resident Hindu for many miles. But the spring (S) still runs on the 

 same as ever, affording another instance of the temporary nature of 

 man's greatest devices compared with that of things not human. 



To the west of the tank, and the north of the second group of 

 temples, on the hill side, and almost buried in the ground, are the 

 ruins of a small solitary temple. The roof is broken into two portions 

 (like that of the Payach tempi ef ), of which the upper one, a pyramid 

 formed of a single stone 2f feet square, is still in its place. 



The situation of the two groups of buildings is very wild and 

 secluded, but not grand like that of the Bhaniyar temple. 



* See ante, p. 94, and Photograph, No. III. 

 f See Cunningham, plate No. XII. 



