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216 EARLY BUDDHIST CAVE-TEMPLES.
been divided into panels by small pilasters, which were perhaps
carved with figures now obliterated. On the north wall were three
Chaitya arches, the central one being the larger, and apparently
contained a dagoba in low relief, as at Kondane. Below this is a
long recess as for a bed, now partly fallen into the water-cistern
beneath. From the hall four cells open to the right, three to the
back, and one to the left, each (except the centre one in the
back) with a stone latticed window close to the roof, and about 15
inches square. In No. XXIX., originally two caves, of which the
dividing wall has been broken through, are similar windows into
four cells.
Cave XXX. is a ruined Vihara, 36^ feet by 19, with eleven cells
round the hall and a twelfth entered from one of these. The next ex-
cavations are situated about three-quarters of a mile from this, Eos.
XXXI. to XXXV. of which are no ways noteworthy. Cave XXXVI,
about 100 yards west from XXXV., consists of an outer hall about
17 feet by 13, with a cell in each side wall, and through it a second
smaller hall is entered which has six cells and two bench bed
recesses.
The third series is divided into two groups, the first facing north-
wards, and the second in a ravine further west, and facing westwards.
It consists of Caves XLII. to LXIIL, few of them deserving of
detailed mention. No. XLVII. consists of a room with a bench in
each end, an unfinished cell at the back, and two others at the left
end, on the wall of one of which is the only inscription of which many
letters are traceable, ending in the usual Una deya dhanam, " religious
gift of a cave" by some one. A few indistinct letters are just
traceable also on the right hand side of the entrance, and near them
the faintest trace of " the rail-pattern." No. XLVIII. (Plate 71,
fig. 1) is a range of five cells with a verandah in front, supported on
three square pillars and pilasters, the central cell, 27 feet by 11 feet
3 inches and lOf feet high, contains a dagoba still entire, the upper
edge of the drum and the box of the capital—which has no project-
ing slabs over it—being carved with the rail-pattern. The umbrella
is carved on the roof and attached to the box by a shaft. In front o
this against the right hand wall is the only figure sculpture in these
caves, and though much defaced, appears to have consisted of three
human figures in alto rilievo about 5 feet high, the left one, a ma e^
with high turban and front knob, similar to some of the older figure*
been divided into panels by small pilasters, which were perhaps
carved with figures now obliterated. On the north wall were three
Chaitya arches, the central one being the larger, and apparently
contained a dagoba in low relief, as at Kondane. Below this is a
long recess as for a bed, now partly fallen into the water-cistern
beneath. From the hall four cells open to the right, three to the
back, and one to the left, each (except the centre one in the
back) with a stone latticed window close to the roof, and about 15
inches square. In No. XXIX., originally two caves, of which the
dividing wall has been broken through, are similar windows into
four cells.
Cave XXX. is a ruined Vihara, 36^ feet by 19, with eleven cells
round the hall and a twelfth entered from one of these. The next ex-
cavations are situated about three-quarters of a mile from this, Eos.
XXXI. to XXXV. of which are no ways noteworthy. Cave XXXVI,
about 100 yards west from XXXV., consists of an outer hall about
17 feet by 13, with a cell in each side wall, and through it a second
smaller hall is entered which has six cells and two bench bed
recesses.
The third series is divided into two groups, the first facing north-
wards, and the second in a ravine further west, and facing westwards.
It consists of Caves XLII. to LXIIL, few of them deserving of
detailed mention. No. XLVII. consists of a room with a bench in
each end, an unfinished cell at the back, and two others at the left
end, on the wall of one of which is the only inscription of which many
letters are traceable, ending in the usual Una deya dhanam, " religious
gift of a cave" by some one. A few indistinct letters are just
traceable also on the right hand side of the entrance, and near them
the faintest trace of " the rail-pattern." No. XLVIII. (Plate 71,
fig. 1) is a range of five cells with a verandah in front, supported on
three square pillars and pilasters, the central cell, 27 feet by 11 feet
3 inches and lOf feet high, contains a dagoba still entire, the upper
edge of the drum and the box of the capital—which has no project-
ing slabs over it—being carved with the rail-pattern. The umbrella
is carved on the roof and attached to the box by a shaft. In front o
this against the right hand wall is the only figure sculpture in these
caves, and though much defaced, appears to have consisted of three
human figures in alto rilievo about 5 feet high, the left one, a ma e^
with high turban and front knob, similar to some of the older figure*