This temple’s walls hewn with exquisitely modelled festoons had also no niches, and could not have had them unless one would have partly sacrificed its panels. But in all other, less spacious temples whose walls were unadorned, are still to be found simple and square formed stones, 2 of which we see in each side-wall, and 1 on every side of the entrance through the front wall, consequently just as the 6 niches in _tyanḍi Mĕndut_ and equally fit to the same purpose. Had not the front walls of these sanctuaries partly fallen down I am sure we then could see that they also had no windows above the entrances, and that neither the inner-rooms of _tyanḍis Sévu_ and _Kalasan_, nor the sanctuary of _tyanḍi Mĕndut_ ever had them till before some years when the president of the “_Oudheidkundige Commissie_” (board of antiquarian science) ordered these openings to be pierced through the front wall scarcely rebuilt by Van de Kamer. And that, _contrary_ to this architect’s official objections, and against my not-official but well argued warning. An irresponsible _deforming_, a _violation_ of the original architecture, a _desecration_ of a primevally pure style! And this becomes much clearer to us when we raise our eyes, and fully _see_ how this polygonal hole spoils the harmony of the character of the pyramidical vault so beautifully thought, and which I mean to have once known as a closed whole. Those who contemplate this pseudo-vault unprejudicedly will no more regret than I do, that such a thing could have happened without having been redressed up to this date. It is true, it would cost much labour again, and money too, but this labour and money would undoubtedly be far better accounted for than that which was uselessly spent to commit such an unpardonable mistake. _Dr._ Brandes may have been deceived by the form of the hole the dropping stones had made _outside_ in the front wall above the entrance, and which he knew from engravings only, for, when he first visited this temple Van de Kamer had this wall erected again just as it once was, and without any other opening but the door. On account of analogical Indian ruins pictured in Fournerau’s and Porcher’s works, I stated elsewhere how the falling asunder of such walls which had been run up with hewn stones without mortar, are to form the very same angular lines of breach _Dr._ Brandes unrightly ascribed to the architect’s intention to build them so. It is true that the front wall of the inner-room of _tyanḍi Sévu_ makes us think, from its inside at least, of such a _relievo vault_, but this had been entirely shut off to its outside, and consequently not likely to have ever done duty as a “light-case”[14]. Had _Dr._ Brandes taken van de Kamer’s objections and my warning into unprejudiced consideration, this meaning of his would not have been possible. _Tyanḍi Mĕndut_ has the outward appearance of a quadrangle with a somewhat rectangular wing in the centre of each of its four sides.