1866.] Notes on some of the Temples of Kashmir. 113 



by the ends of two stones, whose lower corners are rounded off, 

 forming an arch one foot high. The walls are formed of eight courses, 

 of which two are below the surface of the water. 



The roof of the temple is a low pyramid, also formed of eight 

 courses, of which the lowest projects a few inches beyond the face of 

 the walls. The second course from the top of the roof is formed of 

 one stone, 4J feet square at the bottom, and \\ feet high. Over it 

 are three small stones, forming the uppermost course, of which the 

 centre is pierced with a hole, 6 inches in diameter, apparently made 

 to receive the end of a finial that is wanted to complete the pyramid. 



The interior is a square of 7J feet, and is 9 r 5 2 feet high. The floor 

 was in July more than a foot below the surface of the water. The 

 inside walls are formed of horizontal courses, each consisting of four 

 stones only, one on each side of the building. The course over the 

 doorway is slightly projected and rounded, forming a sort of string 

 course along the walls. Above it are eighl courses; the sides of Un- 

 building diminishing in length as they near the top, and the slope of 

 the walls being straight. 



The uppermost course of the interior walls, forming a small square 

 opening, is crowned by a single Hat stone. 



There are a great many stones lying about the tank, but I could 

 not find the foundation of an enclosing Avail,* and, owing to the rushes 

 and other weeds which abound in the water, I could not ascertain 

 whether the bottom of the tank had been flagged or not. I did not 

 find any part of the pedestal of a lingam in the temple. 



The tank is fed by a running stream, which comes from a spring 

 in the side of the hill immediately behind. 



Some of the stones of the temple walls are 9^ feet long and 13 

 inches high. 



FcTTEIIGHUR, KASHMIR. 



After crossing the hill at the end of the valley, about two miles 

 from Baramula, on the way to Nowshcra, a short distance off the 

 road, to the left, towards Gul-murg, there are the ruins of a grand 

 temple, in a village called (since Runjeet Sing's conquest of the 

 country) Futtehghur. Runjeet had a fort built round the temple, 

 # See Cunningham, p. 288, para. 11. 



