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APPENDIX D. 
Additional Akch^ological Notes. 
TANTRI-MALAI. 
1, —" Pot-gula." * 
This box-like campanile — probably a '* meditation cell " — 
constructed, sides and roof, of eight courses of clean-hewn granite 
slabs, stands on the summit of a bowl-shaped upheaval of the 
Tantri-malai rock outcrop. 
Its stones are dry laid and plain dressed, except at the four 
corners, which are cantoned by simple narrow pilasters with 
bracket heads. 
The vertical walls are crowned by a heavy (1 ft. 6 in.) pro- 
jecting cornice of double cyma and rectangular moulding, finished 
by a straight blocking course (5 ft. 9 in. square). Roof slabs 
horizontally trabeated. Within, the walls slide into the flat roof 
by a chamfer and fillet. 
Measurements : — Plan, dimensions 6 ft. 2 in. square (outside), 
3 ft. 2 in. (inside) ; height, 5 ft. 2 in. to 5 ft. 8 in. (outside) according 
to level of rock base, 3 ft. 7 in. to 4 ft. (inside) ; entrance, 2 ft. 4 in. 
wide. 
2. — Cave Shrine.f 
Cut into the bottom of the rounded rock, upon which the 
*' Pot-gula " was erected. 
Measurements : — Inside, 12 ft. 10 in. broad by 8 ft. 6 in. deep 
at present floor level (silted up), but 6 ft. 10 in. at horizontal roof ; 
height, 6 ft. 2 in. at entrance, 6 ft. 10 in. within. 
A gal-dsanaya, or stone seat, at the back of the cave, is barely 
visible above the accumulation of bats' deposit which has 
gradually buried it. 
The entrance (3 ft. 9 in. in width), on the north, is at the 
middle of the front wall of cut stone (1 ft. 6 in. thick), which 
stretched 7 ft. to either side of the doorway. This wall is now 
only 4 ft. in height. 
Above the brow of the cave, below a katdre, or drip line, are cut 
four mortices, which once took the ends of roof beams. 
Outside the wall a single complete pillar (with semi-octagonal 
shaft) and one or two stumps show that a vestibule formerly 
preceded the cave. 
3. — Sedent Buddha.|; 
The Archaeological Commissioner, in October, 1896, found the 
small brick -walled shrine in front of the sculptured image and its 
accessories choked with debris, which hid everything up to the 
Buddha's waist. The shrine itself was freed of brick and earth ; 
but time and weather did not then permit of thorough excavation 
of the walls outside and along the base of the rock to left and right, 
or of other desirable digging at Tantri-malai. 
* See Plates A and C. 
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t See Plates B and C. $ See Plates D and E. 
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