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Junwassa.

JUNWASSA.

‘Plate X. Plans B’

Junwassa, or the place of nuptials. No. 1, the verandah, 2 and 3, recesses. 4,4, female figures with chowries. 5, the recess of the temple. 6,6, gigantic male figures, ‘Chand’ and ‘Prachand’, with their attendants. 7, the temple of ‘Maha-Deva’. 8, the idol; the height of the verandah sixteen feet, the recess of the temple thirteen feet.

Another part of the ‘Junwassa’ is described by Sir Charles Warre Malet, in the sixth Vol. of the Asiatic Researches, and is the nearest to the waterfall; it is about eighty feet in length including the recesses at the end, and nearly thirty in breadth taking in the verandah, which formerly had a row of pillars in front, but now nearly all destroyed.

Both these excavations are marked by No. 5, in the margin of the first general view. No. 6, ‘Comar Warra’, the next cave to the right; the entrance to which is obstructed by fragments of the fallen pillars, formerly six in number, and two pilasters supported the roof of the verandah, on which is sculptured ‘Surya’, or the sun, in his chariot drawn by seven horses. This first apartment is eighty feet in length and thirty wide, the interior is not so long; a pedestal is remaining, but no figure in the recess of the idol, the door of which is guarded by two gigantic figures called ‘Dwara-Pala’, or door-keepers.