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494 JAINA CAVE-TEMPLES.
Bhamer.
The fort of Bhamer in the Nizampur division of Khandesh lies
30 miles west by north from Dhulia. There is one plain monk's
dwelling in the western of the two hills above the village, and two
of those in the other are mere cellars, but the third is a cave or
rather three of more pretensions; it has had a verandah 74 feet in
length with an unfinished cell at the left end; from the verandah
three doors open into as many small but dark halls, each about 24
feet by 20, with four square pillars supporting the roof, and having
corresponding pilasters on each wall.
There are a number of rude sculptures on the walls, of Parswanath
and other Jinas, much defaced from the decay of the rock, but
apparently of the same coarse rough type as those on the CMmer
Lena hill.
Bamchandea.
About twenty-five miles north-west from Poona and seven "W.N. W.
from Chakan, over the village of Bamchandra, is one small rock-
temple and the commencements of two other excavations.
The cave here is now occupied as a lihga shrine, but it is somewhat
doubtful whether it was not excavated by Jains. The mandapa or
hall is only 15J feet square, low in the roof, and supported by four
massive pillars. (Plate XXIIL, fig. 2.) The front wall is structural
and the jambs and lintel of the door of the shrine are formed of a
different stone and let in. It has very small dwarpalas and slender
pilasters. On the lintel was a chinlm, but it has been daubed over
with red lead and oil till it is quite unrecognisable. The frieze is
caiwed with small figures —one of them with an umbrella. On the
roof of the shrine is a rosette, and in the middle of the floor a
modern small linga. The hall has a raised circular platform on a
square one which occupies the whole central area between the pillars,
a feature which, though common in Saiva temples, is also found u
Jaina ones, as for example in the principal old Jaina shrine
Bel gaum fort.1
1 First Arch. Rep. W. Tnd., p. 3.
Bhamer.
The fort of Bhamer in the Nizampur division of Khandesh lies
30 miles west by north from Dhulia. There is one plain monk's
dwelling in the western of the two hills above the village, and two
of those in the other are mere cellars, but the third is a cave or
rather three of more pretensions; it has had a verandah 74 feet in
length with an unfinished cell at the left end; from the verandah
three doors open into as many small but dark halls, each about 24
feet by 20, with four square pillars supporting the roof, and having
corresponding pilasters on each wall.
There are a number of rude sculptures on the walls, of Parswanath
and other Jinas, much defaced from the decay of the rock, but
apparently of the same coarse rough type as those on the CMmer
Lena hill.
Bamchandea.
About twenty-five miles north-west from Poona and seven "W.N. W.
from Chakan, over the village of Bamchandra, is one small rock-
temple and the commencements of two other excavations.
The cave here is now occupied as a lihga shrine, but it is somewhat
doubtful whether it was not excavated by Jains. The mandapa or
hall is only 15J feet square, low in the roof, and supported by four
massive pillars. (Plate XXIIL, fig. 2.) The front wall is structural
and the jambs and lintel of the door of the shrine are formed of a
different stone and let in. It has very small dwarpalas and slender
pilasters. On the lintel was a chinlm, but it has been daubed over
with red lead and oil till it is quite unrecognisable. The frieze is
caiwed with small figures —one of them with an umbrella. On the
roof of the shrine is a rosette, and in the middle of the floor a
modern small linga. The hall has a raised circular platform on a
square one which occupies the whole central area between the pillars,
a feature which, though common in Saiva temples, is also found u
Jaina ones, as for example in the principal old Jaina shrine
Bel gaum fort.1
1 First Arch. Rep. W. Tnd., p. 3.