This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...is an Audience Hall, finely cut in the solid rock. From the cistern one can work up the rock, partly by the old staircases, partly by the modern iron ladders. On the first platform are some rooms that have been excavated, and at the sides of the flight of steps leading up from here are the great claws ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...is an Audience Hall, finely cut in the solid rock. From the cistern one can work up the rock, partly by the old staircases, partly by the modern iron ladders. On the first platform are some rooms that have been excavated, and at the sides of the flight of steps leading up from here are the great claws of the lion to which the place is supposed to owe its name (Sinha-giri, the lion rock). The following description of the excavations upon the summit is given by Mr. Bell: --"Directly in front, looking south from the vantage ground of the east to west cross bank, stretched below as far as the central pokuna, is so much of the lower area as lies between the rock's north and east edges and the high ridge that occupies the western half of the summit. Most here is comparatively level--the only level portion of any extent in a citadel where terraced arrangement was inevitable from the irregular conformation of the rock's surface. This area was seemingly allotted to court-yards, passages, and side rooms. Half-way a winding staircase of three or four flights of steps--the longest on the rock, and pierced at its head through tall flanking walls--shows the means of direct communication with the upper area to the west. At the side of these stairs is the magnificently carved "gal-asanaya" or granite throne, discovered in 1895. "On the left, skirting the east edge of the Rock, was a range of minor rooms and passages, doubtless communicating with an outermost corridor, which almost encircled the citadel. This series of side chambers was continued on to near the south end of the Rock, interrupted only at the pond where extra rooms &c., intervene "That part of the ancient citadel lying south of the pond, and east of the high...
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