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376 BUDDHIST CAVE-TEMPLES.
The eighth may be entered from the last by a rouglily-ent
passage, or perhaps unfinished cell, in its north wall, and may
be described as consisting of two rooms and the shrine, with its
circumambulatory passage. The inner hall is 28 feet by 25, with
three cells on the north side, and is cut off by two pillars and
pilasters at each end, on the east from the shrine, with its sur-
rounding pradaJcshina, and on the west from the outer apartment.
The shrine has the usual dwdrpalas and their attendants at the
door; and inside is the seated Buddha with his attendants, but in
this case Padmapani has four arms, holding the chduri and the lotus
in his left hands, and over his shoulder hangs a deer-skin. At his
feet are small figures of devotees, and behind them is a tall female
figure with a flower in her left hand, and a gandharva over her head.
The other tall male attendant has a similar companion on his left,
with a lotus flower and a rosary in her hands.
On the wall, at the south entrance to the pradaJeshwa, is a sculp-
ture of Saraswati, somewhat similar to the one in the cave above.
Opposite is a cell, and in the passage two more, while behind the
shrine is a long, raised recess with two square pillars in front.
The outer room is 28 feet by 17, with a slightly raised platform
filling the west end of it. On the north side is a chapel on a raised
floor with two slender columns in front, on the back wall of which is
a seated Buddha, with attendants dressed nearly alike, with Brali-
manical cords, necklaces, and armlets, but no chauris, the one on
Buddha's left holding in his hand a three-pronged object, which is
half of what we shall find as his frequent cognizance in other caves.—
the vajrd or thunderbolt, whence he may be styled Vajrapani. On
the west wall is Padmapani with the female figure that we find s0
frequently associated with him.
Coming out of this by the large opening on the south side, ]us
under the ninth cave, we find on the face of the rock to the west, W
partly broken away, a sculptured group of a fat male and tenia t-
the latter with a child on her knees, and attendant, which we find m
other caves,1 and have supposed to represent the parents of Bud'
and himself as an infant, in fact, a Buddhist Holy Family-
There is now a break in the continuity of the caves, and we
to go some way northwards to the next and probably most iu°<
group of all the Buddhist caves. -
1 In Cave IV. at Ajauta and Cave VII. at Aurangabatl for example.
The eighth may be entered from the last by a rouglily-ent
passage, or perhaps unfinished cell, in its north wall, and may
be described as consisting of two rooms and the shrine, with its
circumambulatory passage. The inner hall is 28 feet by 25, with
three cells on the north side, and is cut off by two pillars and
pilasters at each end, on the east from the shrine, with its sur-
rounding pradaJcshina, and on the west from the outer apartment.
The shrine has the usual dwdrpalas and their attendants at the
door; and inside is the seated Buddha with his attendants, but in
this case Padmapani has four arms, holding the chduri and the lotus
in his left hands, and over his shoulder hangs a deer-skin. At his
feet are small figures of devotees, and behind them is a tall female
figure with a flower in her left hand, and a gandharva over her head.
The other tall male attendant has a similar companion on his left,
with a lotus flower and a rosary in her hands.
On the wall, at the south entrance to the pradaJeshwa, is a sculp-
ture of Saraswati, somewhat similar to the one in the cave above.
Opposite is a cell, and in the passage two more, while behind the
shrine is a long, raised recess with two square pillars in front.
The outer room is 28 feet by 17, with a slightly raised platform
filling the west end of it. On the north side is a chapel on a raised
floor with two slender columns in front, on the back wall of which is
a seated Buddha, with attendants dressed nearly alike, with Brali-
manical cords, necklaces, and armlets, but no chauris, the one on
Buddha's left holding in his hand a three-pronged object, which is
half of what we shall find as his frequent cognizance in other caves.—
the vajrd or thunderbolt, whence he may be styled Vajrapani. On
the west wall is Padmapani with the female figure that we find s0
frequently associated with him.
Coming out of this by the large opening on the south side, ]us
under the ninth cave, we find on the face of the rock to the west, W
partly broken away, a sculptured group of a fat male and tenia t-
the latter with a child on her knees, and attendant, which we find m
other caves,1 and have supposed to represent the parents of Bud'
and himself as an infant, in fact, a Buddhist Holy Family-
There is now a break in the continuity of the caves, and we
to go some way northwards to the next and probably most iu°<
group of all the Buddhist caves. -
1 In Cave IV. at Ajauta and Cave VII. at Aurangabatl for example.