256 ARCHITECTURE IN THE HIMALAYAS BOOK II. wooden examples the interval between the two roofs seems to have been left open for light and air ; in the stone buildings it is closed with ornaments. Besides this, however, all these roofs are relieved by dormer windows, of a pattern very similar to those found in mediaeval buildings in Europe ; and the same steep, sloping lines are used also to cover door- ways and porches, these being virtually a section of the main roof itself, and evidently a copy of the same wooden construction. The pillars which support the porticoes, and the one on which the model stands, are by far the most striking peculiarity of this style, their shafts being so distinctly like those of the Grecian Doric, and unlike any- thing of the class found in other parts of India. Generally they are from three to four diameters in height, diminishing slightly towards the capital, and adorned with sixteen flutes, rather shallower than those of the Grecian order. Both the bases and capitals are, it is true, far more complicated than would have been tolerated in Greece, but at Paestum and in Rome we find, with the Doric order, a complexity of mouldings by no
- -!'.* ' means unlike that found here. These
i. Model of Temple peculiarities are still more evident in the in Kashmir. annexed representations of two pillars, one found in Srinagar (Woodcut No. 142), which is a far more highly ornamented example than the last, but equally classical in its details, and, if anything, more unlike any known examples of true Hindu architecture. The other (Woodcut No. 143) is from Shadipur, and is perhaps more modern ; the diameter of the pillar is 13^ in., and the upper fillet of the abacus is 2oJ in. square. Nowhere in Kashmir do we find any trace of the bracket capital of the Hindus, nor of the changes from square to OROUNO LEVEL Cunningham's paper on the subject, from which this woodcut is taken. These miniature models of temples occur here and there throughout Kashmir : on the Pir-Panjal road between .Supiyan and Ramuh, is one ; another is at Kohil near Payer ; a third is built into the embank- ment of the Nali Mar canal ; two in the .Snnagar lake that are often submerged ; and one photographed by Major Cole (' Illustrations of Ancient Buildings,' No. 44), near the Jami Masjid. In these there is an interior cell scarcely a foot square ; but near the village of Pattan are two such models which are not hollowed out, the place of the doorway being represented by a small carved panel. ' Calcutta Review,' vol. liv. p. 26.
