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DESCRIPTIVE REMARKS ON 



quadrangular dome at top, slightly splayed at the base and orna- 

 mented like the rest with griffin balustrade railings surrounding 

 the cell terraces, just above their continuous, all round, cornices 

 as usual. Only in this instance instead of numerous (three or four 

 pairs of) horse- shoe facets containing the human faces, there are 

 only two single horse-shoe niches to each cornice, on each side 

 of the shrine, and these niches contain the curved projecting 

 (canopy ?) block under a semi-circular recess, such as in the other 

 monolithic shrines is usually restricted to the roof-dormers only. 



This peculiarity is also to be observed in the cornice all round 

 the basement of the Olakkannesvara temple (No. 34). 



Another peculiarity, in which this (No. 4) resembles the latter 

 (No. 34), is that two of the wall-panels or niches, one on 

 each side of the centre, stand forward from the wall, one 

 underneath each of the horse-shoe niches of the main cornice, 

 and are provided with prominent overhanging hoods or separate 

 cornices of their own. 



These projecting-hooded niches on the ground-floor are be- 

 tween pillars of the usual style here and much resemble the central 

 and two end niches on each side of the great waggon-roofed 

 monolith (No. 42). 



The middle storey here (No. 4) has projecting cornice-hooded 

 blocks under the horse- shoe niches of the upper continuous 

 cornice, but no pillars have been cut or panels excavated. 



The horse-shoe dormers of the dome and their bargeboard 

 edges are shaped and ornamented much like the ends of the 

 Kamaraja temple (No. 24) and Bhima's Eatha (No. 42). 

 Attenuated lions-rampant support the main cornice at the angles, 

 rearing themselves obliquely between the rectangular brackets. 



On the whole this fragment would seem well worth study and 

 minute delineation. ■ 



Madras Survey Map 21 . No. 4, p. 77, of Braddoch ; para. 3, p. 200, 

 of KdvalilaTishmayya {called on the spot Nanda Gopal-palaiyam or 

 Kapaluvara). 



21 . This is a triple excavation close to the Gopfs (or Draupadl's) 

 churn (No. 20), and is the first met with on arriving at the north 



