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sculptured rocks Nos. 7 and 8, &c. near it, the path back to the 

 village passes by No. 9, the Pundarika-pushkarinT, and by 

 Nos. 10 and 11, ordinary modern-looking- mandapas, to No. 12. 



12. The Dolotsava Mandapa.— This is a high canopy, on four 

 slender monolith shafts 27 feet high, with fastenings on the top 

 for hanging the swing to on which the god's image is swung 

 during the swinging festival Dolotsaram. It stands in the main 

 street of the village just in front of No. 13. 



13. The Sthalasayanasvami (Vishnu) Temple. — This is the 

 large (so called) modern pagoda : admittance into which is not 

 now accorded to strangers. 



The outer courtyard and the eastern entrance gateway tower 

 are incomplete. The inner Gopuram or entrance tower leading 

 into the inner covered court is a very ordinary modern -looking 

 structure, but worth study as illustrating the difference between 

 the older and the modern style of temple-architecture. Above 

 the basement the work is of red brick masonry and stucco. An 

 image of Sthalasayanasvami (Vishnu) recumbent, as in the shore 

 temple, may be seen on the tower over the inner doorway, and 

 another is said to occupy the sanctum sanctorum, and in all three 

 instances with the head to the south. 



One curious thing about this temple is that the Vimana or 

 innermost sanctuary tower is oblong and waggon-roofed instead 

 of being, as usual, pyramidal and capped by a pointed dome 

 and finial. 



14. Emperuman (" Our Great One 1 ''). — A small Vishnu shrine 

 at the north-east corner of the last, No. 13. 



5. PidXri-amman (village goddess) Images and Lingam. — 

 These are eight flat stone images set up on a mound 350 yards 

 north of No. 12, the Dolotsava Mandapa, on the north-east side of 

 the main street. These represent the divine mothers (Sakti) 

 consorts of the principal deities. 



53. The " G-engonda Mandapa." — At the north end of the 

 main street, just a quarter of a mile north of the Dolotsava 

 Mandapa, No. 12 (unexamined). 



54. The Mtjkunda Nayanar Temple.— This is a small ruinous, 



