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DESCRIPTIVE REMARKS ON 



Map No. 



58 " Siva at home " iu shrine and portico of the 



Atiranacandesvara Cave 

 54 " Siva at home " in the shrine of the Mukunda 



Nayanar Temple. 

 37 Four-armed Goddess with attendants in shrine 



and on walls of Draupadi's Ratha. 

 21 Many-armed Grods and Groddess in the cells of 



Nandagopalpalaiyam or Kapalisvara. 

 52 Ten Dvarapal warders : and generally a pair at 



every shrine cell in the place. 

 C. Single human figures or couples, besides the 



Dvarapal warders, too numerous to specify are 



found on the portico wall panels and on the 



upper storey wall panels of the Rathas. 

 43 Four- armed Grods, with or without their consorts, 



clad and unclad — Bishis, ascetics, &c, &c, are 



found on the narrow projecting recessed panels 



and wall niches of all the Rathas and on No. 

 34, 6, &c. 34 the Olakkannesvara Temple, on No. 6 the 



Shore Temple, and on the more finished of the 



cave facades. 



IV. The Inscriptions may be classed as — A, Sanskrit 

 (Nos. 43, 24, 58 and 48) ; J5, Tamil (Nos. 35, 

 59, 60 and 61) ; and C, Unpublished (Nos. 44, 

 16, 51, and 15). 

 A. Sanskrit. 



43 Explanatory labels of mixed Saiva and Vaish- 

 nava epithets over the wall panel figures on 

 Dharmaraja's Ratha, in Sanskrit, in the early 

 Pallava or Eastern Cera character of about the 

 fifth century A.D. 



24 A dedicatory and devotional Saiva inscription in 

 Kamaraja's Temple, in Sanskrit and the Pallava 

 character of about 700 A.D. 



