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CHAP. I. KASHMIRI TEMPLES. 271 both are near Find Dadan KMn, and there are others in the neighbourhood, which may form a connecting link between the Kashmiri temples and other varieties of style in the Himalaya region. So many and so various are the points of interest connected with the style of the ancient buildings in Kashmir, that they deserve much fuller illustration than is compatible with the Temple at Malot, in the Salt Range. (From a Photograph.) scope of the present work. Though not magnificent, they are very pleasing and appropriate examples of art, and they have this advantage over most of the Indian styles, that Kashmir possesses, in the ' Rajatarangini,' what may be said to be the only Indian history in existence, 1 and Dr. A. M. Stein's admirable edition and translation of that work has done much to fix the dates of many of the buildings, and to supply a basis for a scientific and historic treatment of the whole. 1 See ante p. 8.