1879.) V. A. Smith—Observations on some Chandel Antiquities. 295 
were never intended for the positions they now secupy. They do not 
match with each other either in pattern or size. Some are propped up by 
a bloek placed underneath, whilst others have a piece added to the top to 
lengthen them. The thickness, the width and the patterns differ more or 
less in all. This is never the case in temples which have not been restored. 
The mechanical regularity with which the pillars and ornaments correspond 
to each other in undisturbed temples is remarkable. But in the Ganthai 
temple not only do the granite pilasters not match, but even the eight 
sandstone columns are irregular.* There are four pairs of them, and the 
decoration of each of these pairs has certain minute peculiarities, though 
the general style of all is the same. The accompanying Plate XVIII will 
illustrate our meaning, the several pairs of corresponding pillars being A and 
B, C and D, E and F, and G and H;; and the reader will observe that some 
of the pillars which match each other are in unsymmetrical positions. 
That the restoring of old temples, and in many cases the absolute construc- 
tion of new temples out of old materials, is constantly going on at Kha- 
jurdho is seen from the group of Jain temples east of Ganthai, where the 
work of building and repairing is so continual, that, with three exceptions, 
viz., Jinandth, Parswandth and the shrine of the Colossus of Adinéth, it is 
difficult to say of any building that it is now as it originally stood. 
Some undescribed buildings in the Hamirpur District appear suffi- 
ciently remarkable to deserve description, and we close this paper with a 
brief notice of one group of them. For the plans of these temples, see 
Plate XIX. The three temples now described are of small size, but, judging 
from their shape, are doubtless Jain. They are situated (1) at Barsi Taldo, 
near the village of Pahra, 14 miles north-east of the tahsili town of 
Mahoba; (2) at Makarbai, 9 miles distant in the same direction ; and (3) 
at Bamhaurf, 4 miles south-east of Makarbai. This last village Bamhauri 
is not now in the Hamirpur District, having been ceded to the native state 
of Charkari after the mutiny. 
In these temples the shape is a rectangle, the sides of which face the 
cardinal points of the compass, with a sanctum in the middle of the western 
side, opposite to which is the entrance porch. 
The roof, which is low, is supported internally on eight short pillars 
very simply ornamented, and surmounted by plain capitals over which are 
placed the stone beams which support a perfectly unornamented ceiling. 
Over the sanctum was a sikhara or steeple, which at Bamhauri is still stand- 
* The accounts of General Cunningham and Mr. Fergusson seem to us to ex- 
aggerate the beauty of these pillars, and indeed to attach to this Ganthai temple 
much more importance than it deserves. 
