1878.] 
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development. The lower storey of the modern temple which, though most 
commonly square, is occasionally, as in the Madan Mohan example, an 
octagon and therefore a near approach to a circle, is represented by the 
masonry plinth of the relic-mound ; the high curvilinear roof by the swell¬ 
ing contour of the earthen hill, and the pinnacle with its peculiar base by 
the Buddhist rails and umbrella on the top of a Dagoba. From the original 
stupa to the temple of Parsvanath at Khajraha, of the 11th century, the 
towers of Madan Mohan and Jugal Kishor at Brindaban of the lGth, and 
the temple of Vishveshvar at Banaras the gradation seems to be easy and 
continuous. 
A description of the two Brindaban temples is given in. the Journal 
for 1872 (pages 318-320), but it is only now that I have been able to get 
photographs taken of them. 
4. The temple of Gohind Dev a at Brindaban. 
Mr. Fergusson in his Indian Architecture speaks of this temple as 
“ one of the most interesting and elegant in India, and the only one per¬ 
haps, from which a European architect might borrow a few hints.” I 
should myself have thought that ‘ solemn’ or ‘ imposing’ was a more appro¬ 
priate term than ‘ elegant’ for so massive a building, and that the sug¬ 
gestions that might be derived from its study were ‘ many’ rather than 
‘ few’ ; but the criticism is at all events in intention a complimentary one. 
It is, however, unfortunate that the author of a book, which will long and 
deservedly be accepted as an authority, was not able to obtain more satis¬ 
factory information regarding so notable a chef d'oeuvre. The ground-plan 
that he supplies is extremely incorrect: for it gives in faint lines, as if 
destroyed, the choir, or jag-mohan , which happens to be in more perfect 
preservation than any other part of the fabric, and it entirely omits the 
two chapels that flank the cella on either side and are integral portions of 
the design. The cella itself is also omitted ; though for this there was 
more excuse, since it was razed to the ground by Aurangzib and not a 
vestige of it now remains beyond the rough rubble wall of the choir, to 
which it had been attached. The three towers, over the two side chapels 
and the dome in the centre of the nave, were certainly never erected. 
Those over the choir and the sacrarium were both finished, and of the former 
I annex a plan. Its restoration was completed last month, (March 1877) 
with the exception of the finial and a few stages below it, which had entirely 
perished, and which Sir John Strachey on that account would not allow me 
to replace, on the general principle that in all such cases the new work must 
be more or less conjectural and therefore untrustworthy. 
As in the later temple of Badhd Ballabh (described in the first section 
