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 2 6o ARCHITECTURE IN THE HIMALAYAS. BOOK II. memory of familiar forms and suggests memories that throw a veil of poetry over its history more than sufficient to excite admiration in the most prosaic spectators. When, however, we come to reduce its dimensions to scale (Woodcut No. 145), and to examine its pretensions to rank among the great examples of architectural art, the rhapsodies of which it has been the theme seem a little out of place. The temple itself (Woodcut No. 146) is a very small build- view of Temple at Martand, from the East. (From a Photograph.) ing, being only 60 ft. in length by 36 ft. in width. The width of the west facade, however, is eked out by two wings or adjuncts, which make it about 60 ft, thus making its length and breadth about equal. General Cunningham also estimated its height, when complete, at 60 ft. making the three extreme dimensions equal ; but this is only conjectural. T"3I The roof of the temple has so entirely disappeared that Baron Hugel doubted if it ever possessed one. General Cunningham, on the other hand, had no doubts on the subject, 1 'Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,' vol. xvii., Sept. 1848. p. 267.