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KAJGIR.
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all the ornamentation of the Chaitya caves in the West down to the
Christian era was either a literal copy of wooden construction, or
was executed in wood itself, generally teak, attached to the rock and
in very many instances, as at Bhaja, Bedsa, Karle, and elsewhere, the
actual woodwork still remains where it was fixed some 2,000 years
ago. Prom the representations of buildings at Buddha (xaya and
at Bharhut and from the front of the Lomas Rishi cave quoted
No. 10. Representation of a Hall, from Cunningham's Stupa at Bharhut.
above (woodcut No. 3) we know that precisely the same mode of
decoration was employed in the eastern caves, that was usual in the
western ones, but in none of the Behar caves have we any evidence
of wood being so employed except in the verandah of this cave
and in one or two doubtful instances at Katak. One example
may not be considered as sufficient to prove a case, but as far as it
goes, this seems to be a first attempt to remedy a defect that must
have become apparent as soon as the Barabar caves were completed.
"With very rare exceptions all the caves on both sides of India have
verandahs, which were nearly indispensable, to protect the openings
into the interior from the sun, but in nearly all subsequent excava-
47
all the ornamentation of the Chaitya caves in the West down to the
Christian era was either a literal copy of wooden construction, or
was executed in wood itself, generally teak, attached to the rock and
in very many instances, as at Bhaja, Bedsa, Karle, and elsewhere, the
actual woodwork still remains where it was fixed some 2,000 years
ago. Prom the representations of buildings at Buddha (xaya and
at Bharhut and from the front of the Lomas Rishi cave quoted
No. 10. Representation of a Hall, from Cunningham's Stupa at Bharhut.
above (woodcut No. 3) we know that precisely the same mode of
decoration was employed in the eastern caves, that was usual in the
western ones, but in none of the Behar caves have we any evidence
of wood being so employed except in the verandah of this cave
and in one or two doubtful instances at Katak. One example
may not be considered as sufficient to prove a case, but as far as it
goes, this seems to be a first attempt to remedy a defect that must
have become apparent as soon as the Barabar caves were completed.
"With very rare exceptions all the caves on both sides of India have
verandahs, which were nearly indispensable, to protect the openings
into the interior from the sun, but in nearly all subsequent excava-