No. 63.— 1910.] 
ANNUAL REPORT. 
55 
The walls of chambers and verandah still show openings where 
windows were placed at intervals. Vertical holes in the walls 
point to some eighty stout posts being engaged in them (to add 
strength), in addition to the twenty-four pillars in the hall which 
were free standing. 
The B.oor is laid with a thick coating of lime plaster, no doubt 
formerly coloured in a red and blue carpet design, for on the walls 
are still to be seen portions of a dado — a brilliant red framing. 
The whole structm'e — chambers, verandah, and three gangways — 
covered an area of 84 feet square. 
The only "finds" made were a small killotaya, or chunam box, 
still containing lime probably six centuries old, a coin of Sahasa 
Malla, and a skull which crumbled to the touch. 
3. — Restoration. 
Thupdrdma'" Vihdre. — The work of filling in the many and 
dangerous cracks in the walls and roofs of the shrine and vestibule, 
and the rebuilding, where necessary, of the doubtful inset arch 
at the doorway into the shrine, was completed by the end of the 
1908 season. 
Last year, therefore, it was safe to turn attention to the square 
duplicated tower. 
The soffit of the vaulted roof of the shrine was first pointed to 
ensure greater stability. 
The cleaning of the tower, prior to dealing with its cracks, 
disclosed that it had formerly been gutted from the top, in the 
expectation of finding treasure, and the breach subsequently 
refilled with loose debris. All is now set right ; the tower has been 
rendered quite impervious to rain, and the countless abrasions 
and pittings in its wall and roof roughly mended to save further 
rapid weathering. 
The flat roof of the shrine was relaid in cement concrete in 
1908. 
Last season the weepholes " through the parapet (which 
of old merely allowed rain water to run down and wear away the 
wall face of the building) were corbelled out as bracket spouting, 
so as to ensure the drainage being thrown clear of the basement 
plinth. 
Wata-dd-ge. — The pavement of the inner and upper maluwa 
surroimding the central dagaba (within the brick wall) was taken 
up and laid with a radiating slope. 
With no roof to shelter the dagaba and its circular maluwa, now 
that the concentric rings of tall granite columns no longer stand, 
the space became virtually converted during wet weather into a 
shallow tank with no egress for the water. 
A conduit has now been cut, through both its granite plinths 
(outer and inner) and the brick wall, in the middle of each 
quadrant, to pass off water from inside to the exterior maluwa, 
whence existing gargoyles discharge it on to the ground. * The 
pavement surrounding the dagaba will in future, therefore, be 
always rapidly drained. 
