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Somnathpore, interior Court of temple.
Hullabeed, general view, west face.
Hullabeed, earvings, west face.
Hullabeed, entrance, east face.
Seven pagodas, near Sadras.
Seven pagodas, earvings.
Hindoo temple, Bangalore.
Siringham, stone earvings.
U. II. Sykes, Bombay.
Photographs (2) of Ambarnath temple.
Photograph showing interior of Mandup, Ambarnath
temple.
Photographs of river scenery, as follows :—
View down the Par River.
North side of Par River.
Remains of the Par Bridge.
Damaun Gunga, remains of Par Bridge.
Damaun Gunga, south side.
Shewshunker Narayen, Bombay.
Photographs (33) of Ambarnath Temple and its
details, as follows :—
Decorated tank. Screen of decorated tank. Entrance
to tank. North door. South door. West
door. North-west corner. Ceiling in west doorway.
Brahma. “ Maha Kalee.” Mahadco. Suttee
stones ; dug up in 1869. Ruins of top of Vimanah.
North face of Vimanah. East face of Vimanah.
Todah Lake, Ambarnath Temple. Ruins, details, &c.
Ambarnath Temple, situated five miles from Callian,
is a Ling Temple, on the banks of the Wad wan,
a small stream whieh falls into the Oulas, running
tili February or March, and stagnant after that date
until the rains (15th June). The tower or vermanah,
now destroyed, was composed of two storeys. The
hall, or mandap, is still covered, but all the terminations
of the stonework have been thrown down ; this
part is still divided into two storeys, the lower carefully
set out, sculptured richly in all its parts, the
upper, plain, roughly put together, unfaced stones
projecting everywhere, and for the most part composed
of bloeks taken from a former ruin. The
construction of the dome differs from the rules
elucidated by Mr. Fergusson in reference to the
vaulting in Jain Temples in this respect, viz., that
the upper part is closed by two stones meeting, and
that a circular place bas been cut out, through which
the centre pendant is made to hang.
The interior of the vermanah, which is much below
the surface of the ground and floor of the Mandap,
is reached by a flight of steps.
The Ling, or God “ Shämbba,” a most insignificant
object, which projects merely a few inches from
its surrounding “yonee,” in the centre of the
chamber, has been broken into many pieces by
masses falling from above. There is nothing to
prove that this was not the original stone over
which this beautiful temple was raised by some
devout worshipper. Under the west portico of the
Mandap is a Nundee, or Sacred Bull, the usual
vehicle or vehan of Mahadeva (Shiva); but there
is no doubt that its present position is not the one
originally occupied by it. It must have been either
in the centre chamber, under the dome, or at a short
distance outside facing the west entrance.
The compound surrounding the building is replete
with carved ruins. Three flights of stairs, having
sides elaborately sculptured, lead to higher ground,
which was formerly built upon, and from which
bricks of a large size are still recovered from heaps
strewn about in abundance. A number of sculptured
“ Suttee ” stones have been dug up from the earth
near the south portico. These were erected to
commemorate the self-sacrifi.ee of Hindoo widows on
the funeral pyre of their husbands. A richly sculptured
tank of small dimensions, from which a small
quantity of silver, eopper, and lead coins were dug
up, is reached by a flight of stairs on the south side.
Cells seem to have been built in the S.W. and N.
walls of the compound; and many works, some of
great importance, have been constructed in the
surrounding fields, such as a cutting through the
rock for an artificial channel, the construction of a
high dam, several hundred yards long, terminating
in a deep reservoir, and very likely formerly communicating
with a tank still in excellent state of
preservation on the other side of the Wadwan.
Vestiges of ruins here and there show that at some
remote period thiä place must have been of great
importance on account of its sanctity. The translations,
made by Dr. Bhau Daji, of Bombay, of the
inscriptions proves that the temple was rebuilt in
the 9th Century, the date being Samvat 782, eorresponding
with the year 860 of the Christian era.
Many signs go to prove that a similar temple existed
previous to the present one. The shaft of a column
similar to the four central ones has been diseovered,
and many pieces of sculpture have been recut and
fitted into their present places, while others show
clearly that they have been cut partly away to fit.
The upper storey of the Mandap is full of these
remains ; so also are the sides of the larger tank.
Col. H. L. Thuillier, C.S.I., Surveyor-General of
India.
Photozincographs.
Central Provinees’ Topographical Survey, sheet
No. 7, portions of Hoshungabad and Baitool,
1 m. =1 in.
Bundlekund Topographical Survey, sheet Nos 45.
and 48, portions of Punnah Bijawar and Chuttlepore.
1 m. = 1 in.
Chota Nagpore Topographical Survey, sheet No, 64,
portion of Sirgooja and Koria. 1 m. = 1 in.
Central Provinees’ Topographical Survey, degree
sheet No. 4, parts of Hoshungabad, Chindware,
and Baitool. 4 m. = 1 in.
Central Provinees’ Topographical Survey, degree
sheet No. 4, with specimens of exaggerated drawing
of hills and outline on blue prints for reduction
to half scale.
Rajpootana Topographical Survey, degree sheet
No. 5, parts of Jeypore and Ulwar. 4 m. = 1 in.
District Hazareebaugh, sheet No. 11, on the scale of
publication. 1 m. = 1 in.
District Nimar, Central Provinees, with specimens
of exaggerated original drawing on 4 times the
scale. 4 m. = 1 in.
District Seonee, Central Provinees. 4m. = l in.
Plan of the Cantonment and civil Station of Mount
Aboo, Rajpootana. 24 m. = 1 in.
Plan of the Hill Sanitarium of Cheerat, near Peshawur.
12m. = lin.
Part of plan of the Sanitarium of Simla and Jutog,
Northern India, sheet No. 4. 24 m. = 1 in.
Plan of the French Settlement of Chandernagore on
the River Hooghly, near Calcutta. 16 m. = 1 in.,
