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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.2371#0239
KARADH. 217
at Karle and on the capitals at Bedsa, holding some objects in each
hand. He wears a cloth round his neck, and another round his loins,
which falls down in folds between the legs. His right hand is bent
upwards towards his chin, and over the arm hangs a portion of the
dress. He also wears armlets and bracelets. To his left a slightly
smaller figure appears to be approaching him with some offering.
Above this latter is a third, perhaps a female. At the right hand
of this excavation is another cell, approached from outside.
The rest of this group ending with LY. are small and uninterest-
ing, and the cells are not so frequently supplied with stone beds as
in those previously described. From No. LV. it is about a mile and
a half to LYI., which has a verandah 25 feet 4 inches by 11 feet
9 inches, with two plain square pillars in front. The hall is about
24 feet square with ten cells, three in each side, and four at the back,
several of them unfinished. Cave LX. is almost choked with earth,
but is 38 feet long by 13 feet 10 inches wide, with a semi-circular
apse at the extreme end and arched roof similar to the Bedsa Yihara.
Outside and above the front, however, are traces of a horizontal row
of Chaitya window ornaments, so that, though there is no apparent
trace at present of a dagopa having occupied the apse, the cave may
have been a primitive form of Chaitya with a structural dagoba.
From the ease with which such structures could be removed, we
ought not perhaps to be surprised that none such have been found.
But as the evidence now stands, it seems probable that a dagoba of
masonry or brickwork may frequently have been introduced in the
early caves in the West.
at Karle and on the capitals at Bedsa, holding some objects in each
hand. He wears a cloth round his neck, and another round his loins,
which falls down in folds between the legs. His right hand is bent
upwards towards his chin, and over the arm hangs a portion of the
dress. He also wears armlets and bracelets. To his left a slightly
smaller figure appears to be approaching him with some offering.
Above this latter is a third, perhaps a female. At the right hand
of this excavation is another cell, approached from outside.
The rest of this group ending with LY. are small and uninterest-
ing, and the cells are not so frequently supplied with stone beds as
in those previously described. From No. LV. it is about a mile and
a half to LYI., which has a verandah 25 feet 4 inches by 11 feet
9 inches, with two plain square pillars in front. The hall is about
24 feet square with ten cells, three in each side, and four at the back,
several of them unfinished. Cave LX. is almost choked with earth,
but is 38 feet long by 13 feet 10 inches wide, with a semi-circular
apse at the extreme end and arched roof similar to the Bedsa Yihara.
Outside and above the front, however, are traces of a horizontal row
of Chaitya window ornaments, so that, though there is no apparent
trace at present of a dagopa having occupied the apse, the cave may
have been a primitive form of Chaitya with a structural dagoba.
From the ease with which such structures could be removed, we
ought not perhaps to be surprised that none such have been found.
But as the evidence now stands, it seems probable that a dagoba of
masonry or brickwork may frequently have been introduced in the
early caves in the West.