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 n6 NORTHERN OR INDO-ARYAN STYLE. BOOK VI. It is not only, however, that many technical questions will be answered when any competent person undertakes a thorough examination of the ruins, but they will afford a picture of the civilisation and of the arts and religion of an Indian community during seven centuries of isolation from external influences, such as can hardly be obtained from any other source. So far as we at present know, it is a singularly pleasing picture, and one that will well repay any pains that may be taken to present it to the English public in a complete and intelligible form. TENTATIVE LIST OF DATES OF THE PRINCIPAL ORISSAN TEMPLES. 1 Para~mra.me.ywar, N.W. from Muktejwar. Sisireswar. 650-900 . . i Kapalini. Uttarejwar. Somejvar at Mukhalingam. Sari Deula. Mukte-war, S. from Siddhe^war Lingaraj, Tribhuvane^war or Bhuvane^war Great Temple. Kedarejwar, S. from Mukte^war. Siddhe^war, 50 yards N. from Mukte^war. 900-1000 . . ^ Bhagavati. SomeJ-var, 250 yards N. from the Great Temple. Brahme^war. Mukhalinge^war. Viraja and Varahanath at Jajpur. Ma.rkande.nvar at Puri. Na.ke.rwar. Bhaskarejwar. nth century. .[ Rajara.ni, 300 yards N.E. from Muktejwar. Chitrakarm. Kapile^war. Rame^war. Yame.nvar. 1 2th century. Maitre^war. Great Temple of Jagannath at Pun. Meghe^war. Vasudeva, on S.E. of the Vindusagara tank. Kanarak Sun Temple. 1 3th century. -[ Nata Mandap of Lingaraja temple. Vishnu temple at Madab, in Katak district. ^Gopinath at Remuna. The object of this, or any chronological classification of such a series of temples, is to bring us nearer a solution of one of the most obscure problems that perplex the student of Indian architecture. 1 This list must not be regarded as in any sense authoritative ; rather it is sub- mitted for revision on larger knowledge. Were these temples photographed and planned in the way the Dutch Archseo- logical Survey of Java does its work, it would be possible to arrange definitely the Orissa temples.