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 CHAP. I. TEMPLE AT PAYER. 269 regarded it as the most modern of the series, and Cunningham, founding on a mistake, 1 argued for its being a temple erected by Narendraditya, before the end of the 5th century. It is 153- Temple at Payer. (From a Photograph.) evidently much later than Martand, and may be ascribed, architecturally, with some confidence to the loth century. In order to write a complete monography of the Kashmiri style, we ought to be able to trace it to a much earlier period. We know that it was influenced by that of Gandhara, from which it was not distant, and from which it was subject to invasion. There were among the Gandhara viharas as we now know, buildings with sloping stone roofs, and that all along the Himalayas, these double and triple roofs, sloping to four sides ' Rajatarangini,' bk. iii. ver. 383 ; the temple of Narendraswamin referred to was undoubtedly Vaishnava, and this upsets his argument, for the Payer temple is .Saiva ; svdmin is the invariable ter- mination of the names of Vaishnava shrines in Kashmir.