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EASTERN CAVES.
No. 7. Plan Son Bhandar Caves. No. 8. Section Son Bhandar Caves.
Scale 50 feet to 1 inch. Scale 25 feet to 1 inch.
From Cunningham's Report, vol. iii.
than the proportion at Barabar.1 This doorway is balanced towards
the other end of the cave by a window nearly 3 feet square, which is
No. 9. Front of Son Bandhar Cave, from a Photograph.
a decided innovation, and the first of its class known to exist in
India. A still greater advance in cave architecture is the existence
of a verandah 8 feet deep, extending along the front, and at one end
some way beyond the cave. It existence is quite certain from the
mortice holes still remaining in the rock into which the ends of the
rafters were inserted, as shown in the woodcut. Its having been
added here is specially interesting, as it certainly is, like the window,
an improvement, and almost as certainly an advance on the design
of the Barabar caves, and as clearly anterior to that of the Katak
caves, where the verandahs are, as a rule, cut in the rock, with
massive pillars in stone forming part of the original design.
As will be explained in the subsequent pages of the work, nearly
1 The greater part of the information concerning this cave is taken from General
Cunningham's Reports, vol. iii. p. 140, Plate XLIIL, but his drawings are on too small
a scale and too rough to show all that is wanted. Kittoe also drew and described it,
J. A. S. B., September 1847. It is also described by Broadley, Indian Antiquary
vol. L, p. 74,
EASTERN CAVES.
No. 7. Plan Son Bhandar Caves. No. 8. Section Son Bhandar Caves.
Scale 50 feet to 1 inch. Scale 25 feet to 1 inch.
From Cunningham's Report, vol. iii.
than the proportion at Barabar.1 This doorway is balanced towards
the other end of the cave by a window nearly 3 feet square, which is
No. 9. Front of Son Bandhar Cave, from a Photograph.
a decided innovation, and the first of its class known to exist in
India. A still greater advance in cave architecture is the existence
of a verandah 8 feet deep, extending along the front, and at one end
some way beyond the cave. It existence is quite certain from the
mortice holes still remaining in the rock into which the ends of the
rafters were inserted, as shown in the woodcut. Its having been
added here is specially interesting, as it certainly is, like the window,
an improvement, and almost as certainly an advance on the design
of the Barabar caves, and as clearly anterior to that of the Katak
caves, where the verandahs are, as a rule, cut in the rock, with
massive pillars in stone forming part of the original design.
As will be explained in the subsequent pages of the work, nearly
1 The greater part of the information concerning this cave is taken from General
Cunningham's Reports, vol. iii. p. 140, Plate XLIIL, but his drawings are on too small
a scale and too rough to show all that is wanted. Kittoe also drew and described it,
J. A. S. B., September 1847. It is also described by Broadley, Indian Antiquary
vol. L, p. 74,