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beautiful specimens of art in this part of the country, 

 they being the finest works of the kind I have seen in India. 

 The exterior walls of the Vishnu pagoda are covered with 

 bas reliefs representing subjects taken from the Ramayana. 

 Some of the figures I am concerned to say were mutilated by 

 the Mussalmans in former days. "Were I now master of my 

 time and actions, I would make a journey to this place and 

 copy the sculptures. The boar and dagger, symbol of the 

 Anagundi kings, occur amid them. In a recess at the 

 north gateway of the fort is a colossal figure of Hanumanta 

 eleven feet high, in basso-relievo. Near the bungalow rises 

 a Graruda-stambham, a shaft cut out of one stone, forty feet 

 high. Lying beside it is a half-buried figure of Graruda. 

 Between the bungalow and the fort is a square tank, the 

 four sides of which are flights of steps. Half way down a 

 corridored choultry, following the outline of the square, 

 overlooks the tank. The architecture of the choultries here 

 is massive and heavy, like that of similar structures in 

 Egypt. The castle on the side of the hill, the palace of the 

 Rayalus, and the Mussalman buildings ought to be seen. 



Tahur. — Some miles before reaching this place I passed 

 a village in which stood a round tower, such as are frequently 

 met with in this part of the country, and which served as 

 places of refuge for the inhabitants when attacked by 

 Pindarees on other marauders. I saw at Kundi Anantapur 

 a religious edifice belonging to the Kurumbas in which were 

 two wooden heads fastened to a block, a female figure of the 

 same material, and many figures of warriors and rakshasas is 

 in pottery. All these images were painted in glaring colours 

 and ornamented with tinsel. 



Karnul. — A striking contrast is presented in the stately 

 edifices of this Mahomedan town to the mean, disgusting, 

 and filthy mud huts of the villages recently passed through. 

 Here I behold regularly laid out streets flanked by the stone 



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