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CAVES N0ETH OP KAILASA—ELTJEA. 441
application, and their age is undoubtedly very nearly the same. On
each side of the doorway of the shrine is a gigantic dwdrpdla with
digged dwarf attendant, one of them with a high cap having the
prongs of the insula projecting from the top of it, a broad dagger,
a sword, and round his loins a cobra.
The shrine contains a square sdhmkM with a water-rotted lihga
in it. A wide and lofty pradakshina surrounds it.
Caves Noeth of Kailasa.
The next large cave north of Kailasa at Elura is across a deep
ravine, and till 1876 was filled to a depth of 6 or 7 feet with earth
so that only the capitals of the pillars were visible. It was, however,
well worth excavating, and has been cleared with care, and without
damage to the carving. This and the next are called by the natives
"Dumar Lena,"—a name, however, which has been attached by
Europeans to the most northerly of the Brahmanical series.
This is a Saiva temple with three rows of four pillars from side to
side: the front and back aisles being 64 feet long, and the depth up
to the front of the shrine 37 feet, or over all 76 feet. In front has
been a porch raised by seven or eight steps above the level of the
court, on two massive square pillars, one of which is gone, and the
other reduced to a shapeless mass, principally by the weather and
* piped tree that has taken root against one of them. Surround-
mg the court on three sides has been a low covered corridor
Wh a small door in the centre of the front for ingress. Over
uus corridor, at each end of the facade, is a sculptured com-
partment: that on the south contains Brahma with two female
attendants and two gandharvas on clouds: the other, probably
ismm, four-armed, with female attendants; a hole, broken through
e kwer portion of it, opens into the verandah of the next cave.
ihe extreme pillars of the front are plain square ones with bracket
apitals; the inner pair have deep brackets on two sides, carved
a female figures and dwarf attendants. The middle pair in the
; r°w have cushion capitals with female figures, &c. as struts on
r Miner sides, and fat dwarfs on the corners of the high square
es; the brackets above have not been finished. The outer pillars
V* and the next row are in section " broken squares," so
' Urite a form in later structural temples,—the form being that
application, and their age is undoubtedly very nearly the same. On
each side of the doorway of the shrine is a gigantic dwdrpdla with
digged dwarf attendant, one of them with a high cap having the
prongs of the insula projecting from the top of it, a broad dagger,
a sword, and round his loins a cobra.
The shrine contains a square sdhmkM with a water-rotted lihga
in it. A wide and lofty pradakshina surrounds it.
Caves Noeth of Kailasa.
The next large cave north of Kailasa at Elura is across a deep
ravine, and till 1876 was filled to a depth of 6 or 7 feet with earth
so that only the capitals of the pillars were visible. It was, however,
well worth excavating, and has been cleared with care, and without
damage to the carving. This and the next are called by the natives
"Dumar Lena,"—a name, however, which has been attached by
Europeans to the most northerly of the Brahmanical series.
This is a Saiva temple with three rows of four pillars from side to
side: the front and back aisles being 64 feet long, and the depth up
to the front of the shrine 37 feet, or over all 76 feet. In front has
been a porch raised by seven or eight steps above the level of the
court, on two massive square pillars, one of which is gone, and the
other reduced to a shapeless mass, principally by the weather and
* piped tree that has taken root against one of them. Surround-
mg the court on three sides has been a low covered corridor
Wh a small door in the centre of the front for ingress. Over
uus corridor, at each end of the facade, is a sculptured com-
partment: that on the south contains Brahma with two female
attendants and two gandharvas on clouds: the other, probably
ismm, four-armed, with female attendants; a hole, broken through
e kwer portion of it, opens into the verandah of the next cave.
ihe extreme pillars of the front are plain square ones with bracket
apitals; the inner pair have deep brackets on two sides, carved
a female figures and dwarf attendants. The middle pair in the
; r°w have cushion capitals with female figures, &c. as struts on
r Miner sides, and fat dwarfs on the corners of the high square
es; the brackets above have not been finished. The outer pillars
V* and the next row are in section " broken squares," so
' Urite a form in later structural temples,—the form being that