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 436 CHALUKYAN STYLE. BOOK IV. occupied by niches, the fourth by the entrance. The roof is in steps, and with a flat band on each face in continuation of the larger face below. The summit ornament is a vase, in this instance apparently incomplete. The porch is simple, consisting only of sixteen pillars, disposed equidistantly, without any attempt at the octagonal dome of the Jains or the varied 254- Temple at Buchhanapalli. (From a Photograph.) arrangements subsequently attempted. The .rikhara is a straight- lined cone, and its decorations in steps is as unlike the Dravidian spire in storeys as it is to the curvilinear outline of the Jaina and northern temples. The porch too, is open, and consists of columns spaced equidistantly over its floor, without either the bracketing arrangements of the southern or the domical forms of the northern styles. Situated as it was locally, half-way between the Dravidian and northern styles, the Chalukyan retained or borrowed occasionally a feature or form from one or from the other, but not to such an extent as to obliterate its individuality, or to prevent its being recognised as a separate and distinct style of architecture. knoll near the village. It consists of inserted short circular pillars surmounted shrine, hall, and porch, but the .rikhara by rampant Vyilis. Cousens, 'Lists of and roof are ruined. Round the shrine Antiquarian Remains : Nizam's Terri- js an open pradakshina, in which are tory,' p. 63.