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 CHAP. III. MAMALLAPURAM. 329 most of these were collected in a volume in 1869 by a Lieutenant Carr, and published at the expense of the Madras Government, 1 but, unfortunately, as too often happens, the editor selected had no general knowledge of the subject, nor had he apparently much local familiarity with the place. His work in consequence added nothing to our previous stores. 2 In 1883 the editor called attention to the temple of Kailasanathaswamin at Conjivaram as a Pallava temple of probably about the 7th century, containing a number of early inscriptions. 3 On examination by Dr. Hultzsch, these were found partly to belong to the same period as those of the raths at Mamallapuram. The temple, now seemingly a Vaishnava shrine, was erected by the Pallava king Rajasimha 185. Raths, Mamallapuram. (From a Sketch by the Author. alias Narasimhavarman II., towards the end of the /th century and dedicated to I^wara or Siva ; and the names on the Dharmaraja rath agree with those on this temple, confirming the date arrived at in 1880 for these works. 4 1 It included also a short account of the place written in Kanarese for Col. Mackenzie in 1803, with a translation. The publication was issued in two forms in atlas folio, 96 pp., and also in octavo, 246 pp. , with folding plates, and with the same errata. - A survey of the monuments at Mamallapuram was made a considerable time ago, by the Archseological Survey of Madras. 3 Hultzsch, ' South Indian Inscrip- tions,' vol. i. pp. 8ff. 4 'Cave Temples of India,' p. no.