Page:History of Indian and Eastern Architecture Vol 2.djvu/138

no NORTHERN OR INDO-ARYAN STYLE. BOOK VI. temples. 1 As may be seen from the following illustration (Wood- cut No. 320), the parts are so nearly the same as those found in 320. View of Tower of Temple of Jagannath. (From a Photograph.) all the older temples at Bhuvane.rwar, that the difference could 1 News reached this country, about thirty-two years ago, of a curious accident having happened in this temple. Just after the gods had been removed from their SinMsan to take their annual excursion to the Gundicha-ghar, some stones of the roof fell in, and would have killed any attendants, and smashed the gods had they not fortunately all been absent. Assuming the interior of the Bara-Dewal to be as represented ( Wood- cut No. 184), it is not easy to see how this could have happened. But in the same woodcut the porch or Jagamohan of the Kanarak pagoda is represented with a flat false roof, which had fallen. That roof, however, was formed of stone laid on iron beams, and looked as if it could only have been shaken down by an earthquake. I have little doubt that a similar false roof was formed some way up the tower over the altar at Puri, but formed probably of stone laid on wooden beams, and either decay or the