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light to the interior, which is elaborately decorated. 
The gateway in the middle distance, which now no 
longer exists, is a noble specimen of Patan architec- 
ture : it is therefore the more to be lamented that 
this beautiful memorial of earlier times in one of the 
most interesting countries upon earth should have 
been destroyed at the suggestions of a mean and 
pitiful economy. The whole was levelled with the 
ground between twenty and thirty years ago, and the 
stone of which it was built employed for the erection 
of barracks for European soldiers. It is to be de- 
plored that such a fine specimen of architectural re- 
mains should have been so lamentably desecrated. 
