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³⁸ “Often a large rough stone with no carving on it is stuck up and serves for shrine and image alike.” Whitehead, ‘The Village Gods of South India’, p. 35. The shrine of Poleramma, ib. Pl. XV. has one large flat stone, its roof, supported by several upright flat stones and is practically a dolmen; Pls. V. and VI., ib. are further varieties of the Dolmen type; the monolithic uprights are replaced by courses of smaller stones (Pl. V). The shrine of Poshamma, Pl. IX., is a more complex temple of this type, a hollow cube, with a separate door frame, and a number of large flat stone slabs are laid in the shape of a recessed pyramid on top of the flat roof. It is surmounted by a finial. See Part V, notes 53, 55.