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DESCRIPTIVE REMARKS ON 



dormers of the true roof have actually been cut into panels or 

 shallow recesses in which the commencement of a figure in bas- 

 relief may be traced : in Burma's Eatha (No. 42) the sculptured 

 figures are seen clearly and the design displayed, if not completed. 



The bargeboards of the horse-shoe dormers have been highly 

 ornamented with rosettes and floral scrolls, &c. 



Underneath the eaves of the roof a row of small projecting 

 blocks has been carved, perhaps representing the end of horizontal 

 rafters or beams. 



The southern face or front of this shrine is handsome, It 

 consists of a wide open portico surmounted by a cornice and row 

 of cells as usual, supported on two polygonal lion-based pillars 

 (unfinished). The shrine-cell is vacant. 



The facade or front end of the roof has a horse shoe top, and is 

 not pointed like those of No. 42 and No. 24, and it is rather different 

 in the middle, for it contains no open shrine-niche like the former, 

 nor does the dagoba-like centre piece (?) resemble that of 

 the latter. It seems more like a reproduction of its own apsidal 

 end, or the half of a round, closed temple with a dome roof, 

 standing in an arched niche or semi-vault excavated to contain it ; 

 the lower part or storey of the ornament is separated from the 

 upper dome-capped half, by a projecting cornice. The remaining 

 flat part of the end wall within the horse- shoe eaves is carved 

 into a couple of round-headed niches somewhat like those on the 

 ends of No. 42 and No. 24. 



I had no opportunity to examine this interesting monument 

 more closely. 



The sides and apse end are not open but a plain blank wall 

 except fGr the pilasters which break the blank wall space, like those 

 on the north, east, and south sides of Kamaraja's temple, No. 24. 



The size of this shrine according to Braddock is 1 8 feet long 

 (north-south), 11 feet wide (east-west), and 16 feet high, 

 (Bhima's Eatha) of Madras Survey Map ; No. 23, p. 105, of 



Braddock ; or Bhima's Vim ana, para. 34, p. 215 of Edvali Lahh- 



mayya. 



42. This waggon-roofed monolithic temple (?) stands 3rd from 

 the north and next to the southernmost. 



