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Notes 



of the Temples of Kashmir. 



[No. 2, 



2 i/i 3 in 



KOHIL. 



At Kohil, between Awantipore and Payach, there is a miniature 



temple, cut out of one stone, 

 standing near a Mahomedan 

 tomb, within an enclosing 

 wall of recent construction. 

 (See woodcut.) The interior 

 of the temple is a cube of 

 15 inches, with the centre 

 of the roof hollowed out into 

 a dome ; and the walls are 

 5 inches thick. 



The exterior walls are 2 

 feet long without corner 

 pilasters, and there is only 

 one entrance. On three sides there are closed doorways, with pe- 

 diments like that of the entrance. The apex of the doorway pedi- 

 ment is on a level with the top of the lower division of the roof, as 

 at Payach,* and projects 5 inches beyond the roof at the same level. 

 As at Payach, also, the pediment is unbroken, and contains the trefoil 

 ornament. The doorway pilasters project one inch beyond the face of 

 the wall. The basement of the temple, and the upper division of the 

 roof are missing. 



At the same place there are the bases of 3 small columns, whose 

 diameter has been 8 inches. Of their bases, the plinth is 7 inches high 

 and 11 J inches wide. The upper member also is square, and somewhat 

 like that of the Marttand peristyle columns, f 3 inches high. 



Drubgama. 



Between Kamoo and Shapuyon, a few yards from the road, on high 

 ground, near Drubgama, is a miniature temple, like that at Kohil, cut 

 out of a single block of stone 2 feet 8 J inches square, and 4 feet 5 J 

 inches high. 



It has one door to the south, with a horse shoe-shaped arch, covered 

 by a pyramidal pediment, broken into two portions by a return of the 



* See Cunningham, plate XII. 

 t Ibid, plate XV. 



