[419] This and the dimensions in plan generally are taken from a table in Babu Rajendra’s work, p. 41. I am afraid they are only round numbers, and certainly incorrect, but they suffice for comparison.
[420] ‘Tree and Serpent Worship,’ plates 48-98.
[421] Hunter’s ‘Orissa,’ vol. i. p. 237.
[422] It is to be hoped that Babu Rajendra’s book may to some extent remedy this deficiency. In the part, however, now published, he does not promise that this will be the case.
[423] Cunningham’s ‘Reports,’ vol. ii. p. 416.
[424] ‘Asiatic Researches,’ vol. xv. p. 327.
[425] Myself included in the number! but, as explained above, I had no knowledge of the style when I visited Orissa, and had no photographs to illustrate the architecture of temples to which I was not then allowed access.
[426] When I visited Orissa in 1837 and sketched this temple, a great part of the tower was still standing. See ‘Picturesque Illustrations of Indian Architecture,’ part iii. It has since fallen entirely, but whether from stress of weather or by aid from the Public Works Department is by no means clear.
[427] ‘Ayeen Akbery,’ Gladwin’s translation, vol. ii. p. 16.
[428] Hunter’s ‘Orissa,’ Appendix vii. p. 187, et seqq.