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 CHAP. IV. PATTADAKAL. 355 with pilasters against the walls. The lintels over them and the slabs of the roof, as well as the faces of the pillars, are covered with archaic sculptures, and the central square of the roof is filled by a great coiled Nagaraja with five hoods, protected by a chhattra, and two Naginis-with triple hoods are intertwined with his tail. This mandapa is lighted by twelve perforated stone windows four in each wall, an arrangement not found in modern temples. On the inner side of the hall stand two more square piers before the shrine, the doorway of which projects forward, forming a passage 10 ft. in length, into the cella which is 12 ft. square and contains the 5aiva altar. A circum- ambulatory passage goes round this, lighted by two perforated windows in each outside wall. Like all the early Dravidian shrines, it is built of very large blocks of stone closely jointed and without any cement. The representation of the south elevation in Woodcut No. 205, will convey a better idea than any description of the style and appearance of the structure which, though dilapidated, is still a striking and imposing example of the class. The base is elaborately carved ; in large panels in the walls are numerous representations of vSiva in various forms, and of other gods ; and the horseshoe arch is as abundantly represented as in a Buddhist temple. A little to the north-west of this is the temple of Sangame^var now much dilapidated, but quite similar in plan and detail, if somewhat smaller and not so carefully finished, the mandapa is much ruined, as shown in Woodcut No, 206. Its interest lies in the fact that it is older by perhaps thirty or forty years than the preceding, having been erected in the reign of Vijayaditya (697-733). A third large Dravidian temple stands somewhat to the east of north from this last, and is still plainer probably unfinished in its sculp- tured ornamentation ; and to the north- west of it is one of several deserted temples here built in the northern Hindu style. 206. These last two are represented on Woodcut No. 309 (vol. ii.), which places the two forms in vivid contrast. The building there shown on the left is this Sangame^var temple a storeyed pyramid of Dravidian archi- tecture and that on the right a tower in the northern style. In both the base is generally of a cubical form, but in the northern with a slight projection on each face. In a field outside the same village is an ancient Jaina temple Sangamejvar Temple at Pattadakal. Scale 50 ft. to i in.