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DRAUPADl's RATHA. 117
There is a small cell in the interior, measuring 6 ft. 6 in. in
depth from the outer wall to the back of the statue, and 4 ft. 6 in.
across. At the back is a statue of Lakshmi, the consort of Vishnu,
standing on a lotus, four-armed, and bearing the chakra and other
emblems in her hand. Two figures are represented as worshipping
her, one on either side, and above are four Gandharvas, or flying
figures, two of them with moustaches, and bearing swords.1 On
either side of the doorway are two female dwarpalas, and there are
also several similar figures in niches on either side, most of them
females.
Over the doorway is a curious carved beam of a very wooden
pattern, which is principally interesting here, as one nearly identical
exists, belonging to the cave called Kapal Iswara, on the rocky hill
nearly opposite, proving incontestably, as in fact all its architecture
does, that the cave, like everything else here, is of the same age as
this Rath.
Bhima's Ratha.
In order to avoid repetition, it will probably be more convenient
to pass over for the present Arjuna's Ratha, which comes next in the
series locally, and to describe that in conjunction with the one bearing
the name of Dharmaraja, which it resembles in every essential par-
ticular, the one being a copy of a three-storeyed the other of a four-
storeyed Buddhist Vihara. If this is done the next will be that
called Bhima's Ratha, which is the largest of the group. It belongs
to the same style as the Ganesa temple just described, except that, as
in the two last mentioned examples, the conditions as to size are
reversed; the smaller, the Ganesa, is a three-storeyed, while Bhima's
is a tsvo-storeyed Dharmasala or hall of assembly.
Its dimensions in plan are 48 feet in length by 25 in breadth, and
it is about 26 feet in height. As will be seen from the annexed
Plan, it is a little difficult to say what its disposition internally may
have been intended to have been if completed The centre was
occupied by a hall measuring 9 or 10 feet by 30, open certainly
°n one, probably on both sides, and as probably intended to be
cl«sed at both ends.
A representation of this sculpture will be found Trans. B. A. S.. vol. ii. Plate X.
]S- t It is reproduced by Carr with the same references.
There is a small cell in the interior, measuring 6 ft. 6 in. in
depth from the outer wall to the back of the statue, and 4 ft. 6 in.
across. At the back is a statue of Lakshmi, the consort of Vishnu,
standing on a lotus, four-armed, and bearing the chakra and other
emblems in her hand. Two figures are represented as worshipping
her, one on either side, and above are four Gandharvas, or flying
figures, two of them with moustaches, and bearing swords.1 On
either side of the doorway are two female dwarpalas, and there are
also several similar figures in niches on either side, most of them
females.
Over the doorway is a curious carved beam of a very wooden
pattern, which is principally interesting here, as one nearly identical
exists, belonging to the cave called Kapal Iswara, on the rocky hill
nearly opposite, proving incontestably, as in fact all its architecture
does, that the cave, like everything else here, is of the same age as
this Rath.
Bhima's Ratha.
In order to avoid repetition, it will probably be more convenient
to pass over for the present Arjuna's Ratha, which comes next in the
series locally, and to describe that in conjunction with the one bearing
the name of Dharmaraja, which it resembles in every essential par-
ticular, the one being a copy of a three-storeyed the other of a four-
storeyed Buddhist Vihara. If this is done the next will be that
called Bhima's Ratha, which is the largest of the group. It belongs
to the same style as the Ganesa temple just described, except that, as
in the two last mentioned examples, the conditions as to size are
reversed; the smaller, the Ganesa, is a three-storeyed, while Bhima's
is a tsvo-storeyed Dharmasala or hall of assembly.
Its dimensions in plan are 48 feet in length by 25 in breadth, and
it is about 26 feet in height. As will be seen from the annexed
Plan, it is a little difficult to say what its disposition internally may
have been intended to have been if completed The centre was
occupied by a hall measuring 9 or 10 feet by 30, open certainly
°n one, probably on both sides, and as probably intended to be
cl«sed at both ends.
A representation of this sculpture will be found Trans. B. A. S.. vol. ii. Plate X.
]S- t It is reproduced by Carr with the same references.