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EARLY BUDDHIST CAVE-TEMPLES.
si triple box form without any cornice. In four of the capitals
under the roof there are holes on the upper surface as if for placing
relics on them, and in two cases there is a depression round the edge
of the hole as if for a closely fitting cover. On some of them are
the names of Therm, but nearly obliterated.
Still farther along- the scarp is a small chamber with a cell at the
right end, much filled up with earth, but with a frieze, ornamented
by caryatides and dagobas alternately in high relief, supporting a
moulding with dagobas in half relief and with an arched roof, only
half of which remains, the rest having fallen away. On the walls
are some curious sculptures in the Sanchi style ; but it has not been
excavated.
Under the first waterfall is a small empty circular cell; under the
second is a large square room with three cells at each side, partially
filled with debris and much ruined; under the third is a small
circular cell with a dagoba in it.
Bock-Temples op Bedsa.
The caves of Beclsa—also known as Karunj-Bedsa, from the two
villages, near the foot of the Supati Hills, where they are— lie 5|
miles in a straight line, east of Bhaja, and 4| south of the station of
Karkala, on the Great Indian Peninsula Bailway. They are in a
spur from the south side of the same range of hills as the Bhaja
group, but look down upon the valley of the Pavna river, and are at
No. 44. Plan of the Bedsa Caves. Scale, 50 feet to 1 in.1
1 From Fergusson's Ind. and East. Arc/tit., p. 113.
EARLY BUDDHIST CAVE-TEMPLES.
si triple box form without any cornice. In four of the capitals
under the roof there are holes on the upper surface as if for placing
relics on them, and in two cases there is a depression round the edge
of the hole as if for a closely fitting cover. On some of them are
the names of Therm, but nearly obliterated.
Still farther along- the scarp is a small chamber with a cell at the
right end, much filled up with earth, but with a frieze, ornamented
by caryatides and dagobas alternately in high relief, supporting a
moulding with dagobas in half relief and with an arched roof, only
half of which remains, the rest having fallen away. On the walls
are some curious sculptures in the Sanchi style ; but it has not been
excavated.
Under the first waterfall is a small empty circular cell; under the
second is a large square room with three cells at each side, partially
filled with debris and much ruined; under the third is a small
circular cell with a dagoba in it.
Bock-Temples op Bedsa.
The caves of Beclsa—also known as Karunj-Bedsa, from the two
villages, near the foot of the Supati Hills, where they are— lie 5|
miles in a straight line, east of Bhaja, and 4| south of the station of
Karkala, on the Great Indian Peninsula Bailway. They are in a
spur from the south side of the same range of hills as the Bhaja
group, but look down upon the valley of the Pavna river, and are at
No. 44. Plan of the Bedsa Caves. Scale, 50 feet to 1 in.1
1 From Fergusson's Ind. and East. Arc/tit., p. 113.