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19. Isvara Temple. — A very plain common looking building 

 near No. 18, about half a mile east from the canal landing-place, 

 where the footpath meets the west street of the village. — This is 

 a plain rectangular village shrine, built of dressed stone, contain- 

 ing a lingam, emblem of Siva. It has been recently re-roofed 

 and repaired, and looks quite modern. Kavali Lakshmayya 

 states (para. 1, p. 230) that Lord Clive took away the bull 

 (Nandl) from its front. 



23. The Butter-ball of Krishna or DraupadT. — Taking the 

 path at No. 18 (The Monkeys) that leads to the south along the 

 east face of the main group of rocks, at about 80 yards we pass 

 the Butter-ball, which is merely a natural rounded boulder 8 or 

 9 yards in diameter poised on the eastern slope of the rocks. 



24. Kamaraja's Temple of Siva, otherwise called Arjuna's 

 Eatha, and also latterly styled the Ganesa temple from the 

 image of Ganesa (the Tamil Pillaiyar) recently installed in it. — 

 This shrine stands on the rise at the north end of the eastern 

 ridge of the rocks, 120 yards south of the Butter-ball (No. 23) 

 and about 200 yards from the north end of the rocks. It is an 

 oblong monolithic shrine, highly ornamented above the base- 

 ment, and surmounted by a waggon-roof with curved gable ends 

 and side dormers, above two corniced floors or terraces of domical 

 cell ornaments. It is excavated below to form a verandah 

 portico open to the west, and an internal shrine cell, which now 

 contains an image of Ganesa recently enshrined in place of the 

 lingam emblme which once stood here. 



There is an ancient Sanskrit inscription on the south wall of 

 the verandah facing west, in the Pallava character of the sixth 

 century, a little later than the inscriptions on the southernmost 

 (Dharmaraja's) Eatha, No. 43. 



This inscription is in praise of Siva, in whose honor Kamaraja 

 {Lord of the Pallavas) had this temple made. Kamaraja's temple 

 is somewhat like the great waggon-roofed monolithic shrine of 

 BhTma (No. 42), and the ornaments are in the same style, which 

 is generally that of all the monoliths and excavations here. 



The two pillars and pilasters of the portico have their lower 



