THE SEVEN PAGODAS. 



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classes resemble it. Of this class there is only 

 37 the goddess shrine, Draupadi's Hatha No. 37. 



B. The square based shrines, with pyramidal roof 



in steps or terraces, each bearing a continuous 

 row of oblong and square domical imitation 

 cells. The whole capped by a quadrangular 

 or octagonal dome, and furnished with a 

 projecting portico. 

 39, 2, To this class belong No. 39 Nakula's, Nos. 2 and 

 3, 4 3 the Pidarikulam (quarry), and No. 4 the 



Valaiyankuttai Rathas, all of three storeys, 

 43 and No. 43 Dharmaraja's Hatha of four 



storeys. 



(The structural temples Nos. 6,8, 54 and 34 

 belong to the same architectural type.) 



C. The oblong waggon-roofed shape with curved 



gable ends : of this class there are two ; Bhl- 

 42 ma's Ratha of two storeys and but one roof 



24 terrace with the cell ornaments ; and Arjuna's 



Ratha or Kamaraja's temple, of three storeys 

 (? 33) and two tiers of cell-bearing terraces. No. 



33, which has only been commenced, may 



have been intended to be of this shape. 



D. The apsidal temple with ridge roof, one end of 



which has a curved gable facade, whilst the 

 other is the half of a dome. 

 Of this class there is but one example, Sahadeva's 

 41 Ratha, No. 41. 



The imitation cells or cell-ornaments at the angles of the 

 roof terraces of the monolithic shrines and of the rock-cut 

 cave facades belong to classes A and B, the square, domed 

 shrines ; whilst those that are intermediate, the oblong cell 

 ornaments, belong to class C ; and amongst the cell ornaments 

 on Dharmaraja's Ratha (43) there are two that seem to 



