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EASTEKN CAVES.
a separate stone, and has been brought and placed there, instead of
a lingam, which in all probability, originally occupied the sanctuary.
Dkaupadi's Katiia.
The first or most northern of the great group of Raths bearing
the name of Draupadi is the most completely finished of the five,
probably because it is the smallest, and the simplest in its details.
It is square in plan, mea-
suring only 11 feet each
way, and with a curvi-
linear roof rising to about
18 feet in height.1 Above
this there evidently was a
finial of some sort, but
being formed from a de-
tached stone it has been
removed or fallen down,
and its form cannot now
be ascertained, unless in-
deed the original could be
found by digging in the
sand, where it now pro-
bably remains. It would,
however, be very interest-
ing if it could be found,
as the Eath is now unique
No. 27. Draupacirs Eatha, from a Photograph. rf .^ ^^ ^ ^^ ^
belonged to an extensive class of buildings when it was executed,
and their form consequently becomes important in the history or
the style.
1 I have frequently been inclined to suggest that this little Ratha, which in reality
only simulates a Buddhist hermitage or Pansala, contains in itself the germs from which
the Hindu Vima.ua or spire was afterwards formed. The square base, the overhanging
roof, its curvilinear form, are all found here, and nowhere else that I am aware of.
The gulf, however, that exists between such a cell as this and such a temple as that a
Bhu vanes war, built on the same coast, and nearly at the same age, is so enormous tba
one hesitates before putting it forward, even as an hypothesis. All that can be said at
present is, that it contains more elements for a solution, than any thing that has ye
been put forward, to explain the difficulty.
EASTEKN CAVES.
a separate stone, and has been brought and placed there, instead of
a lingam, which in all probability, originally occupied the sanctuary.
Dkaupadi's Katiia.
The first or most northern of the great group of Raths bearing
the name of Draupadi is the most completely finished of the five,
probably because it is the smallest, and the simplest in its details.
It is square in plan, mea-
suring only 11 feet each
way, and with a curvi-
linear roof rising to about
18 feet in height.1 Above
this there evidently was a
finial of some sort, but
being formed from a de-
tached stone it has been
removed or fallen down,
and its form cannot now
be ascertained, unless in-
deed the original could be
found by digging in the
sand, where it now pro-
bably remains. It would,
however, be very interest-
ing if it could be found,
as the Eath is now unique
No. 27. Draupacirs Eatha, from a Photograph. rf .^ ^^ ^ ^^ ^
belonged to an extensive class of buildings when it was executed,
and their form consequently becomes important in the history or
the style.
1 I have frequently been inclined to suggest that this little Ratha, which in reality
only simulates a Buddhist hermitage or Pansala, contains in itself the germs from which
the Hindu Vima.ua or spire was afterwards formed. The square base, the overhanging
roof, its curvilinear form, are all found here, and nowhere else that I am aware of.
The gulf, however, that exists between such a cell as this and such a temple as that a
Bhu vanes war, built on the same coast, and nearly at the same age, is so enormous tba
one hesitates before putting it forward, even as an hypothesis. All that can be said at
present is, that it contains more elements for a solution, than any thing that has ye
been put forward, to explain the difficulty.