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JAIXA ARCHITECTURE.
Book II.
it should bear a tower or sikra to mark the position of the cella on the
outside. Omitting the verandah, the other changes introduced between
the erection of these two examples are only such as were required
to adapt the points of support in the temple to carry a heavy stone
roof, instead of the light wooden superstructure of the Buddhist chaitya
(Woodcut No. 121).
It may be a question, and one not easy to settle in the present
state of our knowledge, whether the Buddhist chaityas had or had
not verandahs, like the Aiwulli example. The rock-cut examples
naturally give us no information on this subject, but the presump-
tion certainly is, looking at their extreme appropriateness in that
climate, that they had this appendage, sometimes at least, if not
always.
JAIXA ARCHITECTURE.
Book II.
it should bear a tower or sikra to mark the position of the cella on the
outside. Omitting the verandah, the other changes introduced between
the erection of these two examples are only such as were required
to adapt the points of support in the temple to carry a heavy stone
roof, instead of the light wooden superstructure of the Buddhist chaitya
(Woodcut No. 121).
It may be a question, and one not easy to settle in the present
state of our knowledge, whether the Buddhist chaityas had or had
not verandahs, like the Aiwulli example. The rock-cut examples
naturally give us no information on this subject, but the presump-
tion certainly is, looking at their extreme appropriateness in that
climate, that they had this appendage, sometimes at least, if not
always.