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BEDSA.
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a height of about 300 feet above the plain, or 2,250 above the sea-
level. They form one of the smallest groups, consisting only of a
Chaitya-cave and Yihara with some dagobas, wells, and cells, and
were first described by Professor Westergaard.1
The first excavation is a small circular chamber, containing an
unfinished Dagoba. Eight yards north of it is a well with the
remains of a dagoba on its north or right side, behind which is an
inscription in two lines. Close to this is a second and third well,
over the second of which is another inscription in three lines.
Four yards from this is the entrance to the Chaitya-cave, which is
reached by a passage 12 or 13 yards in length, cut through the rock,
left in front of it in order to get sufficiently back to obtain the
necessary height for the facade. This mass of rock, on both sides
the entrance, hides the greater portion of the front. A passage,
5 feet wide, has been
cleared between them and
the front of the two mas-
sive octagonal columns
(3 ft. 4 in. thick), and
two demi-columns that
support the entablature
at a height of about 25
feet. Their bases are of
the lota or water-vessel
pitttern, from which rise
shafts, slightly tapering
and surmounted by an
ogee capital of the Per-
sepolitan type, grooved
vertically, supporting a
fluted torus in a square
frame, as at Junnar, over
which lie four thin square
Wes, each projecting over
d»e one below. On each
comer of these last crouch
No. 45. Capital of l'illar in front of Cave at Bedsa (from
a photograph).1
J J""r- Bom- B- R- ^ Soc, vol. i. p. 438; see also vol. Hi. pt. ii. pp. 52-54 ; and
V1«- p. 222 ; Orient. Chr. Spectator, Jan. 1862, pp. 17, 18 ; Fergusson, Lid. mid
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^^cte, pp. 112-114
229
a height of about 300 feet above the plain, or 2,250 above the sea-
level. They form one of the smallest groups, consisting only of a
Chaitya-cave and Yihara with some dagobas, wells, and cells, and
were first described by Professor Westergaard.1
The first excavation is a small circular chamber, containing an
unfinished Dagoba. Eight yards north of it is a well with the
remains of a dagoba on its north or right side, behind which is an
inscription in two lines. Close to this is a second and third well,
over the second of which is another inscription in three lines.
Four yards from this is the entrance to the Chaitya-cave, which is
reached by a passage 12 or 13 yards in length, cut through the rock,
left in front of it in order to get sufficiently back to obtain the
necessary height for the facade. This mass of rock, on both sides
the entrance, hides the greater portion of the front. A passage,
5 feet wide, has been
cleared between them and
the front of the two mas-
sive octagonal columns
(3 ft. 4 in. thick), and
two demi-columns that
support the entablature
at a height of about 25
feet. Their bases are of
the lota or water-vessel
pitttern, from which rise
shafts, slightly tapering
and surmounted by an
ogee capital of the Per-
sepolitan type, grooved
vertically, supporting a
fluted torus in a square
frame, as at Junnar, over
which lie four thin square
Wes, each projecting over
d»e one below. On each
comer of these last crouch
No. 45. Capital of l'illar in front of Cave at Bedsa (from
a photograph).1
J J""r- Bom- B- R- ^ Soc, vol. i. p. 438; see also vol. Hi. pt. ii. pp. 52-54 ; and
V1«- p. 222 ; Orient. Chr. Spectator, Jan. 1862, pp. 17, 18 ; Fergusson, Lid. mid
**ftHt Art-Lit ,.„ ties , , .
^^cte, pp. 112-114