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arrangements they are evidently of a late date. Cunningham
assigns them " to the 5th, 6th, and 7 th centuries of our era," and
there can be little doubt that some of these and in the neighbouring
group at Kholvi were probably the last executed Buddhist caves in
India, and can hardly be dated before the 8th century a.d., though
there may, of course, be some much older caves among them, though
from the extreme coarseness of the material in which they are exca-
vated, it is impossible to speak with any confidence as to their age.
Some of the detached cells may be earlier, but the larger caves are
certainly of very late date.
Several of them are small caves consisting of a small verandah
or outer room and one or two cells behind. Two forms of Chaitya
caves occur, the one flat-roofed and the other arched. Dagobas are
also placed in cells as at Kuda, &c. One known as the Bard KacJieri
is a vihara cave, the hall of which is 20 feet square with four pillars,
with three cells on each side, and a shrine containing a dagoba in
the back. The facade is not unlike that of some of the Kanheri
caves, being supported by two plain pillars, with the side openings
closed by a stone screen, only the pillars have bracket capitals in the
style of those inside the Yiswakarma cave at Blura. The archi-
trave consists of plain members, and the frieze has a dagoba in bas-
relief in the centre and Chaitya-window ornaments on each side.1
Passing a small cave the next to the east, known as the Chhotd
Kaekri, is an arched roofed Chaitya cave 23| feet by 15, with a
dagoba on a moulded base 9| feet square at the foot.
A little eastward is another hall, shown in the left of the woodcut
[no. 67) on the following page, similar to the first described, but
Without any shrine or cells inside. To the left of the entrance,
wwever, are four or five cells, and a dagoba in half relief similar to
What we find in the Ghatotkachh cave.
*he great cave is locally known as " Bhim Sing-ka Bazar" and
presents peculiarities of arrangement not met with elsewhere. It
*ln fact a Chaitya-cave surrounded by a Vihara (woodcut No. 67).2
e Chaitya-cave measures 35 feet by 13-|, with a vaulted roof
. ed m stone, and having a porch or antechapel in front, on the
s of which are sculptured six dagobas in half-relief. The usual
, r* sketeh view in Cunningham's Jicpoits, vol. ii. Plate LXXX., at p. 271.
H»n Fergusson's Ind. and East Archil,, p. 131.
arrangements they are evidently of a late date. Cunningham
assigns them " to the 5th, 6th, and 7 th centuries of our era," and
there can be little doubt that some of these and in the neighbouring
group at Kholvi were probably the last executed Buddhist caves in
India, and can hardly be dated before the 8th century a.d., though
there may, of course, be some much older caves among them, though
from the extreme coarseness of the material in which they are exca-
vated, it is impossible to speak with any confidence as to their age.
Some of the detached cells may be earlier, but the larger caves are
certainly of very late date.
Several of them are small caves consisting of a small verandah
or outer room and one or two cells behind. Two forms of Chaitya
caves occur, the one flat-roofed and the other arched. Dagobas are
also placed in cells as at Kuda, &c. One known as the Bard KacJieri
is a vihara cave, the hall of which is 20 feet square with four pillars,
with three cells on each side, and a shrine containing a dagoba in
the back. The facade is not unlike that of some of the Kanheri
caves, being supported by two plain pillars, with the side openings
closed by a stone screen, only the pillars have bracket capitals in the
style of those inside the Yiswakarma cave at Blura. The archi-
trave consists of plain members, and the frieze has a dagoba in bas-
relief in the centre and Chaitya-window ornaments on each side.1
Passing a small cave the next to the east, known as the Chhotd
Kaekri, is an arched roofed Chaitya cave 23| feet by 15, with a
dagoba on a moulded base 9| feet square at the foot.
A little eastward is another hall, shown in the left of the woodcut
[no. 67) on the following page, similar to the first described, but
Without any shrine or cells inside. To the left of the entrance,
wwever, are four or five cells, and a dagoba in half relief similar to
What we find in the Ghatotkachh cave.
*he great cave is locally known as " Bhim Sing-ka Bazar" and
presents peculiarities of arrangement not met with elsewhere. It
*ln fact a Chaitya-cave surrounded by a Vihara (woodcut No. 67).2
e Chaitya-cave measures 35 feet by 13-|, with a vaulted roof
. ed m stone, and having a porch or antechapel in front, on the
s of which are sculptured six dagobas in half-relief. The usual
, r* sketeh view in Cunningham's Jicpoits, vol. ii. Plate LXXX., at p. 271.
H»n Fergusson's Ind. and East Archil,, p. 131.