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504 JAINA CAVE-TEMPLES.
representation of rich drapery; in front of it has been a wheel set
edgewise, now broken away, with antelopes at each side; and from
behind his cushion appear on each side a sdrdula or nondescript
monster, a chauri-bearer with high regal tiara, and a very fat
vidyddMra with coronet and moustache : the figures have all been
repaired with plaster. Eound this image is a pradalcshina.
There has been an open court in front of this cave as at the Indra
sabha at Elura, but only the pediment of the entrance is now visible
among the debris of the facade. On the left of the entrance is a
water-cistern.
The front aisle is peculiar in having a gable-shaped roof with
an opening in one end into a passage which runs over the water-
cistern and comes out beyond it; what it was meant for is difficult
to conjecture.
The third cave has a hall about 59 feet square by 11 feet 3 inches
high, with twenty square columnsx arranged in a square with six on
each side, and twelve cells in the sides and back besides the shrine,
which has been a copy of that in the second; there are also images
in bas-relief in two of the cells in the back. The hall has five doors
and the verandah is supported by six plain octagonal columns, and
has an unfinished cell in the right end, with a large square block or
pillar of rock in the middle of it.
The fourth is a hall 28 feet deep by about 26| wide which has
had four columns, four cells in the walls, and a shrine; but all the
columns are broken, only the capitals hanging by the roof; and the
shrine wall has been broken through into the cell on the right of «•
The pillars in both the last two caves are of a simple not inelegant
type resembling the Tuscan order, but with a neck of the Elephants
type, and a collar of ornamental carving round the upper edge o
the shaft.
As to the age of these caves it is difficult to speak with much
confidence; the absence of wall sculptures and the style of the pula™
in all of them seem certainly to mark them as of a considera J
earlier type than the Elura Jaina caves, and compared with
architectural features of Brahmanical and Buddhist caves, 1 aro
disposed to assign them to about the middle of the seventh centurj
of our era.
1 Four pillars, two on each side, are round. See Arch. Sur, W. India, vc
Plate VII.
representation of rich drapery; in front of it has been a wheel set
edgewise, now broken away, with antelopes at each side; and from
behind his cushion appear on each side a sdrdula or nondescript
monster, a chauri-bearer with high regal tiara, and a very fat
vidyddMra with coronet and moustache : the figures have all been
repaired with plaster. Eound this image is a pradalcshina.
There has been an open court in front of this cave as at the Indra
sabha at Elura, but only the pediment of the entrance is now visible
among the debris of the facade. On the left of the entrance is a
water-cistern.
The front aisle is peculiar in having a gable-shaped roof with
an opening in one end into a passage which runs over the water-
cistern and comes out beyond it; what it was meant for is difficult
to conjecture.
The third cave has a hall about 59 feet square by 11 feet 3 inches
high, with twenty square columnsx arranged in a square with six on
each side, and twelve cells in the sides and back besides the shrine,
which has been a copy of that in the second; there are also images
in bas-relief in two of the cells in the back. The hall has five doors
and the verandah is supported by six plain octagonal columns, and
has an unfinished cell in the right end, with a large square block or
pillar of rock in the middle of it.
The fourth is a hall 28 feet deep by about 26| wide which has
had four columns, four cells in the walls, and a shrine; but all the
columns are broken, only the capitals hanging by the roof; and the
shrine wall has been broken through into the cell on the right of «•
The pillars in both the last two caves are of a simple not inelegant
type resembling the Tuscan order, but with a neck of the Elephants
type, and a collar of ornamental carving round the upper edge o
the shaft.
As to the age of these caves it is difficult to speak with much
confidence; the absence of wall sculptures and the style of the pula™
in all of them seem certainly to mark them as of a considera J
earlier type than the Elura Jaina caves, and compared with
architectural features of Brahmanical and Buddhist caves, 1 aro
disposed to assign them to about the middle of the seventh centurj
of our era.
1 Four pillars, two on each side, are round. See Arch. Sur, W. India, vc
Plate VII.