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them only have spiked maces on which they rest ' at ease.'' The 

 cells are quite plain and now vacant, but, from the encircled 

 sockets in each, they were intended probably to be furnished with 

 a lingam apiece, with a tableau behind it as usual, for which 

 however the panel only has been prepared. 



The two flank or end walls outside the covered portion of the 

 excavation have the cahkha and the cakra just as in the Eama- 

 nuja Mandapa (No. 48) which it resembles also in having no 

 linga remaining. 



Under the cornice is a frieze or string course of birds. The 

 extreme measurements of this excavation are length 36' 6" north- 

 south, depth 22 feet to back of cells, and height 10 feet. 



Koneri Mandapa North. 

 No. 51 Madras of Madras Survey Map; No. 6-2, p. 78, Braddock, 

 and para. 26, p. 213, of Kavali Lakshmayya. 



51. This is an unfinished excavation adjoining the last (No. 52) 

 and north of it. It consists of five bays between four griffin or 

 lion-based pillars and two plain square pilasters. It has only a 

 single verandah or portico 36' long (north-south), 10' deep (east- 

 west), and 10 feet high (Braddock, p. 78), and a single niche or 

 cell cut in the back wall 6' wide, 5 feet deep, and 6 feet high, 

 quite plain and vacant. The capitals of the pillars are large 

 square massive blocks left quite unfinished. 



There is a single short line of inscription engraved on the floor 

 immediately in front of the recess or shrine-cell. 



The 5 Monolithic Shrines (or Rathas). 



DuATJPADf s " Ratha," No. 37 of Madras Survey Map ; Brad- 

 dock' 1 s No. 21 {Carr, f. 104); and the Sakti (goddess) 

 " Vimana " of Kavali Lakshmayya ( Carr, p. 214). 



37. This is the monolithic shrine at the north end of the line 

 of the four so-called " Rathas" and it is devoted to female images 

 or sculptures, the central figure at the back of the shrine inside 

 being a four-armed goddess attended by six figures (armed 

 dwarfs, &c). She wears an ornamental high topi and is adorned 

 by various girdles round her breast and waist, &c, also anklets, 



