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BAG II.
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No. 65. Great Vihara at Bagh. (From a plan by Dt. Impey.)1
rent layers varying from a light ochrey tint to a dirty dark grey,
and apparently a portion of the roof inside the octagon had given
way while the work was being executed. The piers were then intro-
duced, and the damaged portion of the roof was hewn out, leaving
the central area higher than the rest of the cave; the architraves
forming the inner sides of this, are carved with a double row of
Chaitya window ornaments.
This hall has nine cells on each side and six in the back—twenty-
four in all, while in the middle of the back wall is the shrine having
a Ddpla or Chaitya precisely similar to that in No. I. The whole
hall is filled up half way to the roof with fallen rock.
No. IV. is entered from the same verandah as No. III., and is a
P'ain room, 94 feet by 44, with two rows of eight pillars, each run-
ning from left to right. Mr. Impey calls it " the shala or school-
room," but it evidently is a Dharmasala like the Darbar cave at
JVanheri and not unlike it in dimensions, though the pillars are
'"uerently arranged. From it a passage leads into the next cave.
™ch with two or three beyond are much ruined, and scarcely
worth detailed description.
ihese two caves have a common verandah 220 feet in length, and
which once had twenty pillars, but they have all fallen. The back
1 °f this was adorned with a series of very beautiful frescoes,
\ailing in excellence those at Ajanta. Processions on elephants
1 From Fergnsson's /. and E. Arehit., p. 160.
365
No. 65. Great Vihara at Bagh. (From a plan by Dt. Impey.)1
rent layers varying from a light ochrey tint to a dirty dark grey,
and apparently a portion of the roof inside the octagon had given
way while the work was being executed. The piers were then intro-
duced, and the damaged portion of the roof was hewn out, leaving
the central area higher than the rest of the cave; the architraves
forming the inner sides of this, are carved with a double row of
Chaitya window ornaments.
This hall has nine cells on each side and six in the back—twenty-
four in all, while in the middle of the back wall is the shrine having
a Ddpla or Chaitya precisely similar to that in No. I. The whole
hall is filled up half way to the roof with fallen rock.
No. IV. is entered from the same verandah as No. III., and is a
P'ain room, 94 feet by 44, with two rows of eight pillars, each run-
ning from left to right. Mr. Impey calls it " the shala or school-
room," but it evidently is a Dharmasala like the Darbar cave at
JVanheri and not unlike it in dimensions, though the pillars are
'"uerently arranged. From it a passage leads into the next cave.
™ch with two or three beyond are much ruined, and scarcely
worth detailed description.
ihese two caves have a common verandah 220 feet in length, and
which once had twenty pillars, but they have all fallen. The back
1 °f this was adorned with a series of very beautiful frescoes,
\ailing in excellence those at Ajanta. Processions on elephants
1 From Fergnsson's /. and E. Arehit., p. 160.