THE SEVEN PAGODAS. 



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between them, and the square cells are capped by a single 

 kalaSam or vase-shaped finial. 



The roof of each of these domical cells was designed to have 

 a horse-shoe facet containing the projecting curved (? canopy-) 

 block surmounting a sculptured human figure. This design is 

 only completely indicated in the two cells on the left (south) of 

 the centre. The angles of the cells have been carved to repre- 

 sent lions (or griffins) rampant facing outwards obliquely and 

 as if supporting the eaves of the roof at the corners, as in the 

 OlakkanneSvara (No. 34), and the shore temple No. 6. The 

 vase finials are rather more graceful and the stopple more pointed 

 and taller than those of the Kamaraja monolith (No. 24) hard 

 by. In the descriptions published in London (1870) to accom- 

 pany Captain Lyon's Photographs, in No. 425, this shrine is 

 stated to contain " a lingam and a long inscription," which 

 could not be examined by reason of the store of building 

 materials there. 



Krishna Mandapa. {No. 13, p. 92, of Braddock; and para. 13, 

 p. 205, of Kavali Lalcshmayya). 



15. This structure is at the south-west corner or right rear of the 

 large modern temple of Vishnu and some 30 yards south of the 

 Panca Pandava cave facing the east. It consists of a covered 

 court nearly 50' x 30' and 12 feet high built of cut-stone through- 

 out, the roof being supported by three rows of columns, four in 

 each row, spaced 9 feet apart. The pilasters at each end of the 

 front row are plain structural piers and not monoliths like the 

 twelve free standing columns. 



The back (west) and the ends (north and south) of the 

 mandapa are formed by the rock, which has been excavated 

 nearly 30 feet in depth from the front until a sufficient height was 

 obtained, and the whole of the interior thus formed has been 

 sculptured in las-relief into a great pastoral scene, the abode of 

 cowherds with their women and children, many of them busy at 

 their wonted avocation. The principal human figures however 

 seem to be two princes with their wives and attendants, who 



