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 CHAP. III. KHAJURAHO. An illustration of one of the great Hindu temples will be given further on, Another view of one of the smaller Jaina temples, that of Adinath (Woodcut No. 290), will suffice to illustrate the style of art here employed. Its porch either never was added or has been removed and replaced in modern times by a brick abomination with pointed arches. This, however, hardly interferes with the temple itself. There is nothing probably in Hindu architecture that surpasses the richness of its three-storeyed base combined with the extreme elegance of outline and delicate detail of the upper part. The sculptures on this temple, as Mr Cousens remarks, are chiefly devts, and on the dsana or seat for the image in the shrine a figure of Garuda is carved, whilst a small loose image of a Jina is placed upon it, and no distinctly Jaina im- age appears on the walls. All this points to its having been built as a Vaishnava temple and afterwards appropriated by the Jains. 1 The two exceptional temples above alluded to are, first, one called the Chausath Jogint, or sixty-four female demons. It consists merely of a courtyard, measuring 102 ft. by 59 ft. and surrounded by sixty-four small cells, with one larger in the back wall, each of which is surmounted by a small spire, as shown in the woodcut (No. 291). This is essentially like a Jaina arrange- ment (see Temple of Neminath, 2gi for instance Woodcut No. 280, page 32) ; but there is only a resemblance. We know of at least two other old temples dedicated to these Joginis : one is at Ranipur Jharial in the Patna estate, to the south of Sambhalpur, also with sixty-five cells or recesses, 2 and another at Bheraghat, 12 miles below Jabal- pur, with eighty- one recesses for the sixty-four Joginis and their Chausath Joginl, Khajuraho. (From a Plan by Gen. Cunningham.) Scale 50 ft. to i in. 1 Photographs of the Jaina temples are given in Sir L. Griffin's ' Famous Monu- ments of Central India,' plates 48-51. 2 At this place there is a very remark- able and numerous series of temples, unsurveyed as yet, among which is a circular Chausath Jogini temple, about 56 ft. outside diameter. 'Indian Anti- quary,' vol. vii. p. 20 ; ' Survey Reports,' vol. xiii. pp. 132 etseqq. and plates 13, 14.