Account of Mamallaipur. 



[Nu. 30. 



tain each a kind of recess, (intended probably for a group of 

 figures,) and a circular trench, (intended probably for Ling- 

 ams.) A figure is carved on each side of all the niches at the 

 entrance. Four steps lead into this temple which faces north- 

 west, half-west. 



Adjoining is a rough excavation 86 feet long, 10 deep and 

 1 0 high. In the middle is a large niche, also rough. About 

 12 feet of the rock appear to have been cut away before suf- 

 ficient height was obtained for the front. This occurs in 

 other places also ; and a platform or level space, is thus form- 

 ed in the rock in front. 



About half a mile westward, at the western extremity of 

 the Palmira tope which is on the west of the hill, there are 

 three small unfinished temples sculptured out of solid de- 

 tached masses of stone, (No. 7) : but as more elaborately 

 finished and larger temples of the same description will be 

 described hereafter, I shall not dwell on these smaller ones. 

 I would now lead the reader back to the large stone before 

 described as resting on the slope of the rock on the eastern 

 side of the hill. (No. 3.) 



Proceeding southerly from this stone you presently arrive 

 at a temple fashioned out of the rock, (No. 8) and ornament- 

 ed according to a style of architecture wholly different from 

 that of this part of India in the present day. The top is 

 elliptical, and bears considerable resemblance to the gothic 

 style. The pillars which support a verandah on the western 

 side, are I think similar to columns which I have seen in the 

 sketches of Egyptian Ruins by M. Denon. This temple is 

 28 feet high, 20 feet long and 11 feet 6 inches broad. On 

 the western face, at what may be called the foundation, there 

 is a rent in the rock, which causes the temple to incline a 

 little out of the perpendicular towards the south east. This 

 handsome structure (if so it may be termed), has a verandah 



