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tion and measurements of the temple will be supplied by Mr. Cowie, 

 and Messrs. Shepherd and Bourne have published some beautiful photo- 

 graphs of it. The ' Pedestrian' does not notice it at all, as his journal 

 at Naoshera is occupied by an account of his tumbling into the water, 

 and of the loss of a sheep, ' which most seriously affected the success 

 of the day's dinner arrangements.' 



" 4. I will put together in conclusion two or three matters of less 

 consequence. At the head of the exquisite little lake of Marusbal, 

 which should be visited for its lovely scenery, is a small sanctuary now 

 so engulphed by the advancing water that only its pyramidal top 

 appears above the surface. By paddling up to it in a little boat we 

 could see the upper part of the pediment, and found that within it, as at 

 Pandrethan, a cross-legged figure is sculptured. And while the 

 traveller is exploring the city of Srinagar, which, in spite of its filth, 

 contains many objects of interest, he should visit a mosque called by the 

 boatmen the Padshahi Musjid, where Zein-ul-ab-ud-din, the Sultan 

 who introduced shawl-making into Kashmir, erected his mother's 

 tomb on the foundations of an old temple, which is noticeable for a 

 fine gateway, ornamented with representations of the temple itself in 

 bas-relief; and for the remains of a quadrangle having 84 recesses, 

 which once contained as many emblems of Siva, 84 being a favourite 

 number with the old Kashmirian architects, and connected, as G-enl. 

 Cunningham explains, with the worship of the Sun. These small 

 models of temples, often placed on pillars, are noticed both by Fer- 

 gusson and Cunningham, and are very curious and instructive. Per- 

 haps the best is to be seen in the middle of an open space near the 

 Jumma Musjid of Srinagar, which in itself deserves a visit on account 

 of the forest of deodar columns by which its roof is supported. 



" I do not know whether these stray remarks, soon to be superseded 

 I hope, by Mr. Cowie's more elaborate descriptions, will be of any use 

 as a very unpretending appendix to Genl. Cunningham's valuable 

 paper. But so many of us now go to Kashmir and miss much that is 

 interesting from the want of any trustworthy guidebook, that small 

 contributions of actual experience may be useful as enabling travellers 

 to study a phase of architecture not only noticeable for its beauty and 

 grandeur, but historically important, as giving ocular demonstration of 

 t lie influence exercised by the Greek Kingdom of Bactria on the neigh- 



