KANIIERI.

Otii

The inner shrine is empty. In front has been a brick dagoba rifled
ong ago, and at the west end are several fragments of caves ; the
fronts and dividing walls of all are gone.

Some way farther up is a vihara* with a large advanced porch
supported by pillars of the Elephanta type in front and by square
ones behind of the pattern occurring in Cave XV. at Ajanta. The
hall door is surrounded by mouldings, and on the back wall are the
remains of painting, consisting of Buddhas. In the shrine is an
image, and small ones are cut in the side walls, in which are also
two cells. In a large recess to the right of the porch is a seated
figure of Buddha, and on his left is Padmapani or Sahasrabahu-
lokeswara, with ten additional heads2 piled up over his own (see
Plate LV., fig. 2) ; and on the other side of the chamber is the
litany with four compartments on each side. This is evidently a
late cave.3

Altogether there are upwards of 30 excavations on both sides
of this ravine,4 and nearly opposite the last-mentioned is a broken
dam,3 which has confined the water above, forming a lake. On the
hill to the north, just above this, is a ruined temple, and near it
the remains of several stupas and dagobas. Just above the ravine,
on the south side, is a range of about nineteen caves,6 the largest of

*"*■ 21. 2 Notes on Ajanta, &c, p. 100.

3 TV *

t-sas representation of Padmapani with many heads
is a very favourite one with the modern followers of the
-lahayana sect in Nepal, and is found also among the
rains of Nakon Thorn in Cambodia (Gamier, Atlas,
Mm) and probably elsewhere. So far as I know it
» not found in Java, and one would hardly expect to find
' ere in a cave which from its architecture can hardly

* ter than the eighth or ninth century (see Picturesque
M«stratims of Rock cut Temples, fol. , Plate XIV.),

'l * is interesting to be able to trace these strange

thtrtions even s°far back m that'in india> when

tb \e0<JS WCTe rePresented wita 11 heads it is evident

their St °0Uld n° longCT reProach the Hindus for
^eir many-headed and many-armed divinities, and that

|lav,S"npllclty and purity which sustained it in its early
•mm long since passed away .—J. F.

ami -u Me numbered 5 to 23, 98, 97, 96, 95, 91, 93,

"u '8 to 87.

6 *, to have been destroyed by the Portuguese.

No . 64. Padmapani, from a
Nepalese drawing.

' These

are awkwardly numbered from west to east thus:—29-33, 34, 77, 76, 75,

'U3>".4M3,42,72,71,70,

69. In six of these there are inscriptions.