THE SEVEN PAGODAS. 



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tail. Several are figures of well-clad men, with common tur- 

 bands ; others wear skull caps, and the deified four-armed 

 figures generally have very tall caps or head-dresses ; others 

 again, somewhat like the heads in the horse- shoe facet ornaments, 

 have a great shock of hair, parted in the centre as in " No. 1, 

 upper gallery (first terrace), east side," of plate XYI, which 

 stands in the north corner panel of the east side. This figure 

 is to be seen in several places in the locality, as for instance on 

 the Olakkannesvara temple, No. 34. 



The third or uppermost terrace, surrounding the neck of the 

 crowning member, is difficult of access, and seems too confined 

 to have been ever used. The dome is octagonal, and higher 

 than a hemisphere ; each face is ornamented with a small horse- 

 shoe dormer containing the projecting curved canopy block, and 

 surmounted by a tall flat spike or horn. As in the last des- 

 cribed (Bhima's) Hatha, No. 42 all the free-standing kalasams 

 or finials are wanting, robbing the work of the finished and 

 ornamental appearance so conspicuous in Kamaraja's temple 

 (No. 24). 



The Shore Temple. 



No. 6 of Survey Map ; No. 26, plate XX, and p. 107 of BraddocFs 

 account ; Saiva Temple of Kavali Lakshmayya, para. 42, p. 

 218. 



This temple of Siva is on the beach, half-a-mile east of the 

 sculptured rocks and modern temple of Vishnu. It is founded 

 upon some rocks that rise to the surface, and may be seen here 

 and there, a little to the north and south of the temple, which 

 is further protected by a breakwater of pitched stones, but is 

 much worn by the spray of the surf by which it is almost sur- 

 rounded in rough weather. 



The style of this temple is early Dravidian, and is not very far 

 removed from that of the southernmost monolithic shrine 

 (Dharmaraja's Eatha), and also of the northernmost but one, 

 No, 39, 



