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 CHAP. I. HALEBID. 443 this cannot be : this gem of* Indian architecture is no more ; 260. Kedaresvara, Halebid. (From a Photograph by Capt. Tripe.) vegetation did its relentless work unchecked, and the pile is long ago a shapeless mound. 1 The Kedare^vara temple was, however, surpassed in size 1 In 1876 Mr. Fergusson wrote : " In entirely destroyed by the trees, which a very few years this building will be have fastened their roots in the joints