1866.] 



Notes on some of the Temples of Kashmir. 



121 



I was assisted in taking the above measurement by W. Elmslie, Esq., 

 M. D. 



To the north of the temple, a few feet distant, there is a small 

 rectangular building. Its interior is 11 feet by lOf feet, and the 



walls are %X feet thick. The 



174 



iliiv 



\ 



Srif* 



-i„. roof is formed of large plain 

 f slabs, supported on four hori- 



H Jt zontal stone beams, 15 inches 

 wide, and 6J inches high. 

 Each of these beams is formed 

 of two stones. These beams 

 again rest, in the centre, on 



another stone beam (formed of 



2 pieces) lOf feet long, 11 



inches high and 16 inches wide, 



and supported on two stone pillars (of 8 flat faces each) without 



bases. Including the capitals, the pillars are 4 feet 1(H inches high 



and 23J inches thick. (See woodcut.) The capitals are not alike. 



There is one entrance to the east, as in the temple close by. It is 

 round headed, with plain mouldings parallel to the sides and top. 

 The walls outside and inside are plain. The exterior of the roof is 

 gone. 



Avantiswami.* 



Though the Dewan at Srinagar readily consented to my opening 

 up the ruins of Avantiswami, I experienced great difficulty in 

 obtaining bildars and coolies for the work. For some weeks I could 

 not get any at all, and most of the work was done by very old men 

 and children. 



I excavated the whole of the peristyle on the south side of the 

 quadrangle and the part of it between the S. W. corner and the 

 gateway. At first I hoped that the displacement of the entablature 

 over the colonnade was only local ; but, on continuing the excavation, 



* See General Cunningham's Essay, p. 276, and the Bishop's letter to the 

 Asiatic Society, 1865. 



