ON the northern as well as the southern sides of the court the pillars are all of a much plainer character than on the east, and from their simplicity are, I imagine, of an earlier date. Although evidence of a positive kind cannot be detected, in the shape of corresponding mason-marks in the different detached pieces, as in the case of the five pillars at (a) on Plan II. (see p. 48), these columns have somewhat the appearance of being built of parts, some of which were contiguous portions of the same pillar, in one of the twenty-seven Hindu temples said to have been broken up on this spot.
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