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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.2371#0341
AJANTA. 319
with great tiaras, bearing chaurk and some round object in the
left hand, while on the front of the seat, which has no lions at
the corners, are carved two deer as vdhana, with a chalcra or wheel
between them. The painting in this cave has now almost entirely
ilisappeared.
The probability is that this cave should not be considered so much
as a Vihara or a Dharmasala as the vestry hall or chapter house
of the group. If this is so these four caves, XVI. to XX., form
the most complete Buddhist establishment to be found among
the Western caves. Two Viharas, one Chaitya, and one place of
assembly. Hitherto it has generally been supposed that the halls
of the Viharas formed the place of meeting for the monks, and so
that probably it did, each for their convent, but it seems probable
that besides this there- was a general hall of meeting attached to
each group, and that this was one of them.
with great tiaras, bearing chaurk and some round object in the
left hand, while on the front of the seat, which has no lions at
the corners, are carved two deer as vdhana, with a chalcra or wheel
between them. The painting in this cave has now almost entirely
ilisappeared.
The probability is that this cave should not be considered so much
as a Vihara or a Dharmasala as the vestry hall or chapter house
of the group. If this is so these four caves, XVI. to XX., form
the most complete Buddhist establishment to be found among
the Western caves. Two Viharas, one Chaitya, and one place of
assembly. Hitherto it has generally been supposed that the halls
of the Viharas formed the place of meeting for the monks, and so
that probably it did, each for their convent, but it seems probable
that besides this there- was a general hall of meeting attached to
each group, and that this was one of them.