pie. The walls of this elevated terrace, projected -on either side of the
gtepa, so as to form withrthe walls that received the steps three sides- of
spates; which Ate-Sepoy who was with me immediately said must have
been intendeds £d& small 'tanks, ©he .at each side of every flight of steps,
for- the i devotees to purifys "themselves in before their appearance at the
shsrine of the deity: Onlfthe third step froth the" bottom, on each side of it,
was a figure of Hastu Singh (or the-Mon seated in -the elephants mouth),
looking'outwards and--having a very fine effect. |j The samefigures, facing
outwards, supported each side of the (four, entrances to the vestibules. The
terrace has a breadth'of -three feet .and a half, clear of the walls of the temple
all round,'land as far as I could discern in the ruin, following the angles
of the edifice; . - , ; - - I ■
- The forta-of the building, like that at-Loro Jimgrrn, is a cross, with the
same intermediate ahgular projectionsy-iU order to afford room for the grand
central apartment. .Entering frourthe east >you pass through a portal, five
feet 'eight-inches m width- by five.feet mine inches in length (which is the
fhickn'ess of the "wall's? into an. oufeYVestibulei .twelve feet - wide by ten
deep.- The walls of mis vestibule 'are"ornamented with three 'nich.es, a
large and two smaller ones, with pointed arches, and all the profuse decoration
of Hindu architectural sculpture. In most of these niches remained
the. thrpne of the inferior, deftifes, who the Sepoy said must have
originally occupied them: not one was now to be found. The throne Was
generally a single stone^decorated in frbnt with a vase and profusion of
flowers, filling the whoWspace in a natural easy manner. Leaving this
room you pass on through> doorway four feet-five inches in width, and four
feet in depth (the thickness ofj^Ke wall),-butrrf uncertain height, to a
second vestibule -fourteen feet nine inches wide, and .four feet four inches
deep. At either end of this vestibule is a door; twenty-six inches wide in
the clear, fopr .feet twoTnches deep in the passage or width of the wall,
and barely five feet and a half high," which communicates with the surrounding
terrace. This vestibules perfectly plain, with the exception of a raised
Spiral fluting, which surrounds the large porta1 or Sate IeadinS mto the
central apartment, and eliminates near thte bottom steps in the representation
of the elephant's mouth and trunk, simply cut in relief on the wall,
with no other addition But several strings of beads descending from the top
of his proboscis. The roofs ohthe vestibules or limbs of the building,
though entirely fallen, were originally shaped like the Syrian, that is pointed
& 0 2 and