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 CHAP. II. TEMPLES AT KANGRA. 301 architecture as the porch, but also because Ganeja appears among its integral sculptures. In the niche in the back 166. Pillar in porch of a Temple at Eran, of the Gupta age. 167. Capital of Half Column from a Temple in Orissa. (From a Lithograph.) however, is the base of what has been a marble image of Mahavira, with an inscription in two lines telling that it was consecrated in A.D. 1240. This base must have been transferred to the Siva, temple after the destruction of the original Jaina shrine, and probably owes its preservation and that of a figure placed over it, to the ignorance of the priests of Vaidyanatha. 1 The temple second in interest is that of Siddhanath at the west end of the town. It consists of a four-pillared hall and a shrine, measuring 33 ft. by 20 ft. over all, and with a jikhara about 35 ft. in height. It faced to the east, and had doorways on each side of the shrine leading into a pradakshina or circumambulatory passage. 2 In a niche in the south wall there had been an inscription, long since illegible ; but in the back or west wall was a figure of Surya ; and the temple was most probably dedicated to the sun. 1( Epigraphia Indica,' vol. i. pp. 98 and 118-119, a nd compare p. 120. On it was placed a sandstone figure of Surya perhaps from the Siddhanath temple. A similar transference has occurred at Kot Kangra, where an image of Parr- wanath was found in the porch of a small Hindu temple Ibid. p. 1 20. 2 The drawings of this temple in Cunningham's 'Archaeological Reports,' vol. v. plate 44 are not correct.