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 JAINA ARCHITECTURE, BOOK. V. of the general aspect of these temples externally. There are some sixteen bastis at this place, of which the largest and most notable is the Hosa-basti, built in A.D. 1430. They are much plainer than Hindu temples usually are. The pillars look like logs of wood with the angles partially chamfered off, so as to make them octagons, and the sloping roofs of the verandahs are so evidently wooden that the style itself cannot be far ..... 3P3- Jaina Temple at Mtidabidri. (From a Photograph.) removed from a wooden original. In many places, indeed, below the Ghats the temples are still wholly constructed in wood without any admixture of stone, and almost all the features of the Mudabidri temples may be found in wood at the present day. The blinds between the pillars, which are there executed in stone, are found in wood in every city in India, and with very little variation are used by Europeans in Calcutta to a greater extent, perhaps, than they were ever used by the natives. The feature, however, which presents the greatest resemblance to the northern styles, is the reverse slope of the eaves above the verandah. The same style is found in the old temples at Karkala and elsewhere in Kanaraj but in no other district south