Mediaeval Temples of the Dakhan c8.s1.8

c8.s1.8

This building is in a very dilapidated state; the stone of which it is built is of a soft nature, and has weathered in many parts to a state of murum which now crumbles away at the least touch. The broken masonry, at the back discloses the secret of the construction of its walls. An outer and an inner shell of block masonry, set up more or less on edge, are filled in between with loose blocks and boulders, without the least attempt at bonding, and with no cement of any kind. In fact, the outer and inner shells just keep the ‘filling-in’ from rolling out altogether. To prevent confusion in the description of these buildings and in the absence of names, they are numbered. This is No. 4. No. 5 is not far from it.