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DESCRIPTIVE REMARKS ON 



The following brief description of each object will afford 

 most of the information which a visitor will usually care to 

 have, and will point out some of the architectural and other 

 peculiarities most worth noticing. 



DESCRIPTION. 



1. Pidaiii Amman (a village goddess) Temple. — Within 200 

 yards of the canal landing-place, on the footpath to the village, 

 This is an ordinary looking village shrine with a flat roof, hav- 

 ing a wide verandah or portico open to the east. There is a 

 balipitham or sacrificial altar in front, with a lion couchant, and a 

 ling am. 



2. Pidari-kulam Quarry Hatha (first or north). — A mono- 

 lithic shrine nearly 100 yards south-south-west from No. 1, faces 

 the east ; lowest story only blocked out. Pyramidal roof of two 

 domical cell-bearing terraces, capped by a tallish octagonal dome, 

 all much in the style of the other monoliths, but has no pillars or 

 pilasters completed. It has a good deal of ornamentation on the 

 roof, and much resembles No. 39, Nakula's Hatha. 



3. Pidari-kulam Quarry Eatha (second or south). — This is 

 a small monolithic shrine somewhat similar to, and only a few 

 yards south-south-west from, No. 2 and facing the north, but the 

 interior has not been excavated. It has domical cell ornaments 

 on the lower terrace of the roof only. The dome is quadrangular. 

 The pilasters on the wall are more nearly finished, and resemble 

 those on No. 37, Draupadi's Eatha. 



4. Valaiyankuttai Eatha. — About 160 yards south of Nos. 

 2 and 3, at the south end of this group of rocks and immediately 

 west of the Valaiyankuttai, a small pool, stands the third 

 monolithic shrine. The roof and walls are more elaborate and 

 slightly more finished than those of Nos. 2 and 3 which it some- 

 what resembles- It has two terraces of domical cell ornaments 



