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BRAHMANICAL CAVE-TEMPLES.
Cave-Temples of Bhambukde, Eajapcki, &c.
At the small village of Bhamburde to the north of Poona is
another Saiva rock-temple, very closely resembling that of Jogai
Amba both in style and arrangements, only that the Nandi pavilion
in front is round instead of square, as may be seen from the plan,
Plate LXIX., and the annexed woodcut. The shrine is advanced into
No. 68. BMmburde Cave, from a drawing by T. Daniell.
the floor, instead of being a cell in the back wall. It is somewhat
larger however, being 160 feet in one direction by about 100 across,
and, as may be seen by comparing these plates, it is altogether of a
finer and more monumental character, and hence probably of a more
ancient date. The roof of the pavilion slopes, and has been hewn
with ridges or ribs after the shape of an umbrella. Owing to
there being no exit for the water that accumulates in the trench
round this mandap—for it sits quite in a pit—it stands for a large
part of the year in a sheet of water that reaches from the Nandi
in the centre of it to the entrance of the cave.
Kajapuri is a small village about 8 miles to the west of Wai i
the Satara district, near the source of the Krishna.1 The caves are
in a spur of the Mahabaleswar range, on the south-west of
Krishna, and at a height of 1,200 or 1,300 feet above the valley, b'
1 These caves have not been described in any detail hitherto. They weref**?
by the Messrs. West in 1853, who have kindly placed their collections at my di*P0'
BRAHMANICAL CAVE-TEMPLES.
Cave-Temples of Bhambukde, Eajapcki, &c.
At the small village of Bhamburde to the north of Poona is
another Saiva rock-temple, very closely resembling that of Jogai
Amba both in style and arrangements, only that the Nandi pavilion
in front is round instead of square, as may be seen from the plan,
Plate LXIX., and the annexed woodcut. The shrine is advanced into
No. 68. BMmburde Cave, from a drawing by T. Daniell.
the floor, instead of being a cell in the back wall. It is somewhat
larger however, being 160 feet in one direction by about 100 across,
and, as may be seen by comparing these plates, it is altogether of a
finer and more monumental character, and hence probably of a more
ancient date. The roof of the pavilion slopes, and has been hewn
with ridges or ribs after the shape of an umbrella. Owing to
there being no exit for the water that accumulates in the trench
round this mandap—for it sits quite in a pit—it stands for a large
part of the year in a sheet of water that reaches from the Nandi
in the centre of it to the entrance of the cave.
Kajapuri is a small village about 8 miles to the west of Wai i
the Satara district, near the source of the Krishna.1 The caves are
in a spur of the Mahabaleswar range, on the south-west of
Krishna, and at a height of 1,200 or 1,300 feet above the valley, b'
1 These caves have not been described in any detail hitherto. They weref**?
by the Messrs. West in 1853, who have kindly placed their collections at my di*P0'