1850.] 



Sircar of Fytun. 



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his hind leg for the convenience of the rider to mount, who is in the 

 act of stepping on the elephant's foot for that purpose. An umbrella 

 is also held over this person. The last compartment represents the 

 same principal male and female figures seated cn a couch, with dra- 

 pery. They appear to be listening to the sounds of the vina played 

 by a male wigged figure on the right, and a naked female on the left, 

 is apparently accompanying it with her voice, judging by the atti- 

 tude she adopts. 



Round the frieze within the hall, a series of sculptured Pagodas in 

 high relief are arranged, the alternate ones slightly projecting ; those 

 most permanent contain a male and female figure in amatory dal- 

 liance, with females, in separate niches right and left as attendants : 

 in the niches of the receding Pagodas, there are placed a squab fat 

 wigged man, with attendant females. 



Towards the north and south are recesses in the wall, the roofs 

 supported by two pillars and two pilasters, whose designs differ very 

 much from those before described, their plinths are square, and of 

 the same height as the others, with the Polygonal shafts plain or 

 fluted, and braced round, with bands of bead and chain work, and 

 rosettes, like the hall pillars, but the difference is found in the 

 shafts tapering to a bottle-necked form on which rests the capitals, 

 whose upper shape under the abacus, is not unlike the bell of the 

 Corinthian capital, the compressed cushion occupying the place of the 

 enriched details of that order, a peculiarity is here observed in 

 brackets springing from shoulders of the column right and left, to 

 the roof, resorted to for supporting the roof in the absence of the arch, 

 the brackets are formed of the horned fabulous monster in an up- 

 right attitude, bearing figures on their backs, but the sculpture has 

 been much injured. The pillars in the western recess are more exu- 

 berant in their decorations than the eastern ones. 



Cells occupy each corner of the hall, whose dimensions are 15 

 feet long by 10 feet broad. 



The vestibule to the sanctuary is supported by two pillars and 

 two pilasters of the same form as seen in the recess, but infinitely 

 more rich in their decorations, a richly cut moulding skirts the sides 

 and tops of the entrance, arranged in what Heraldry terms imbattled 

 lines, the ornamental border represents chain and bead work, with 

 rosettes, and in each compartment formed of this arrangement of the 

 design, appear figures of amatory couples ; round the cornice above, 



